Vinnytsia region: powerful drug lab with millions in profits exposed
Kyiv • UNN
In Vinnytsia region, the police dismantled a powerful drug lab that produced 10 kg of amphetamine per month, bringing millions in revenue to a criminal organization operating in Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions.
Law enforcement officers liquidated the drug lab: the dealers produced 10 kg of amphetamine per month, operated in Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions, and their "business" brought in millions of dollars.
Writes UNN with a reference to the Department for Combating Drug Crimes of the National Police of Ukraine.
Details
The SBU eliminated illegal activities of a criminal organization in Vinnytsia region. It was a drug lab in a private house in Vinnytsia region , as well as a group of suspects who operated in the capital, as well as in Kyiv and Vinnytsia regions.
The police found that a 37-year-old resident of Kyiv organized the drug business. He involved five other local residents in the criminal activity. The so-called lab technicians were engaged in the manufacture of amphetamine.
To disguise the illegal activity, the organizer set up a drug lab in a private house in Vinnytsia region and supplied precursors there. In addition, he controlled the movement of money received from illegal activities and distributed profits among the group members.
The capacity of such a laboratory allowed the offenders to produce more than 10 kg of amphetamine per month, and the "business" brought them more than a million hryvnias of income per month.
The police, with the force support of the Special Police Battalion of the Kyiv City National Police and the tactical response of the Patrol Police Department, conducted 13 simultaneous searches and dismantled the drug lab. During the investigation, the police seized amphetamine, cannabis, precursors, laboratory equipment, cars, money, weapons and a hundred rounds of ammunition.
The value of the seized drugs and their components at black market prices is over one million hryvnias. All seized items were sent for examination.
Police detained six participants.
The National Police investigators have already served them suspicion notices under Part 1, 2 of Article 255 (Creation, management of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it) and Part 3 of Article 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues in particularly large amounts committed by a criminal organization) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
For their actions, they face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
