Two Syktyvkar men held with 5.5 kg of hashish and 28 stashes in Komi
Drug-control officers stopped an Audi A4 in a forest in Komi's Ust-Vymsky district and detained two Syktyvkar men, finding more than 3 kg of hashish in pressed bars. Investigators later located all 28 stashes the pair had laid in Ukhta district and seized more than 2.5 kg more; both men were remanded in custody.
🇷🇺 Mae Sam Mun forest, Ust-Vymsky district, Komi Republic · Russia
Drug-control officers of the Komi Republic’s interior ministry established that
two Syktyvkar residents were involved in a drug-trafficking offence.[1]Officers stopped an Audi A4 in a forest in Ust-Vymsky district, and the two
suspects inside were a previously convicted 25-year-old from Syktyvkar and his
26-year-old accomplice.[1]A search of the car found pressed bars of plant
material, which an expert identified as hashish weighing more than 3 kilograms
in total.[1]Investigators then found that the pair had laid 28 stashes in
Ukhta district, and officers located all of them and seized more than 2.5
kilograms of the same drug.[1]
A criminal case for attempted large-scale group drug sale was opened against
both suspects, and both were remanded in custody.[1]The same outlet said the
28 stashes were in Ukhta itself rather than in its district.[2]BNK, relaying
the republican interior ministry, reported that the couriers brought three
kilograms into Ust-Vymsky district and were caught in the act there.[3]
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Police operational photograph of the seized hashish: about 15 brown pressed bars in clear film, with a police emblem layered on the image. Photo: operational footage of the Interior Ministry for the Komi RepublicPhoto details
БНКbnkomi.ruRUПолиция нашла в Ухте 28 схронов с гашишем
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The police statement gives no date for the stop or the searches; 3 October 2025, the date of the ministry's report, is used as the incident date and may be a day or more after the detention.
The hashish weights are given only as more than 3 kilograms in the car and more than 2.5 kilograms in the stashes, so the recorded 5.5 kilograms is a combined minimum, not an exact laboratory total.
No street value, the suspects' names, or the classification of the 28 stashes' contents beyond the police's description were published.
Sources differ on where the stashes were hidden: the ministry's statement and Komiinform say Ukhta district, while KomiOnline says the city of Ukhta, and the district centre is used here.
The ministry's headline calls the 2.5 kilograms 'durman', a colloquial word for a drug, while its own text calls the stashes' contents hashish; the report follows the text.
No court outcome beyond pre-trial custody was reported, and it is not known whether one case covers both men or whether they were formally charged.
The still photograph shows seized bars whose exact count is not stated in the text, so it is treated as an operational photo of this seizure rather than a verified item count.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Комиинформ: Ukhta district police gave the same account of the 28 stashes and more than 2.5 kilograms recovered from them.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in КомиОнлайн: KomiOnline, citing the republican interior ministry, reported that the two Syktyvkar residents were suspected of trafficking more than 5 kilograms of hashish.
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Sevastopol drug police detained a 43-year-old man who they said stored and packed drugs and laid master stashes for an online shop, and seized a 1.3 kg pressed cannabis briquette from his rented garage. Officers also found single doses of marijuana and amphetamine at his rented house and about a kilogram of mephedrone in a woodland stash near Inkerman; a court ordered him held in custody.
