Police found a cannabis plantation in the private banya of a house in Ryabovo, a village in the Vyborg district of Leningrad Oblast.[1][2] Officers seized more than 200 cannabis plants and five polymer bags of dried brown leaves weighing more than six kilograms in total.[1][2]

The detained man was a 27-year-old unemployed local resident of Ryabovo.[1][2] The banya stands on Polyanskoye shosse.[2] Tests confirmed that the seized material was cannabis and products made from it.[1][2]

Police opened a criminal case for attempted large-scale sale of drugs.[1][2] At the time of the reports the question of a preventive measure was still being decided.[1][2]