Cannabis plantation found in a private house during Vsevolozhsky migrant raid
Police found marijuana being grown in one of the private houses checked during a migrant-control raid in the Dunai and Ogonyok gardening settlements in Vsevolozhsky District, Leningrad Oblast, next to the Morozov powder works. An administrative protocol under article 6.8 of the Administrative Code was drawn up against the grower and an inquiry is under way.
🇷🇺 Sadovodstva Dunai and Ogonyok, near the Morozov powder works, Vsevolozhsky District, Leningrad Oblast · Russia
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Police, the Federal Security Service’s regional directorate, the Main
Directorate’s special regiment, dog handlers and Rosgvardia troops raided the
Dunai and Ogonyok gardening settlements to check foreigners breaking the rules
on stay in Russia.[1]The operation took place on the territory next to the
Morozov powder works in Vsevolozhsky District, Leningrad Oblast, the regional
police press service said.[1]
Officers checked two car services, 894 houses and 197 people, among them 18
foreign citizens.[1]Four people were found in breach of migration law, and
their expulsion from Russia was being considered.[2]
In one of the private houses police found marijuana being grown.[1]An
administrative protocol was drawn up against the man who grew it, and an inquiry
is under way.[1]The protocol was drawn up under article 6.8 of the
Administrative Code, which covers unlawful trafficking in drugs, and the papers
were registered at a police station.[2]
Road police officers joined the raid and drew up five administrative protocols
against drivers.[1]
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No count of plants, no weight and no area for the marijuana plantation was published.
The sources give no separate date for the raid; 8 November 2026 is the date of the police statement and of publication and is used as the incident date.
No name, age or nationality was given for the man recorded in the protocol, and the outcome of the inquiry was not reported.
Both accounts reproduce the same regional police statement, so they are not independent reporting; the Interior Ministry page itself was not opened.
The raid also checked drivers and migration offenders who were not accused over cannabis; those results are not counted in this report's cannabis figures.
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Tula drug-control officers and Belev police searched a 32-year-old man's flat, seized more than 100 cannabis plants and at least 459 grams of marijuana he said he grew for himself, opened a large-scale possession case, and ordered him not to leave town pending investigation.
Drug officers backed by the Rosgvardiya Kolovrat SOBR team detained a 52-year-old previously convicted Ryazan man at his Barashevo home, seized 8.63 kilograms of marijuana from an outbuilding, and jailed him pending trial after he said he had grown cannabis there for personal use.
