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Two KGB officers and a policeman organized spice marketing

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Two KGB officers and a policeman organized spice marketing

Organized group was involved into illicit sale of especially dangerous psychoactive substances.

The head of Information and Public Relations Department Siarhei Kabakovich informed BelaPAN.

It has been established that an organized criminal group for a long time in Minsk was engaged in illegal trafficking, possession and distribution of especially dangerous substances posing as smoking mixtures, mixes, powders, bath salts, etc.

For the purpose of selling the group organized a clear hierarchic structure in which every participant played a specific role: receipt and transportation of psychotropic substances from the Russian Federation, physical and technical security organization, further distribution of psychotropic substances. 

Before implementation of amendments into the law in 2014, to the part concerning the recognition of a substance as a drug or psychotropic substance and their addition to a list as prohibited ones, the group used to enter not listed substances in Belarus.

This allowed them to escape responsibility in case of group members arrest. 

In a result of close cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Belarus, including the internal security services of the KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee, it became possible to identify the involvement in criminal activities of a former officer of Ministry of Internal Affairs and two former KGB officers. 

In order to follow conspiracy the group leaders had developed ways of communication and interaction between law abusers: buyers and drug dealers did not have an immediate contact and communicated only through the Internet, the sale took place through the caches, and funds were transferred through the electronic payment system. 

During the searches it was seized 2,5 kg of especially dangerous substances and ammunition.

Preliminary figures indicate that the illegal income of organized group members made up more than 32 billion of Belarusian rubles.

Ten group members have charged with abuse of power, illegal drug trafficking, psychotropic substances and their precursors and analogues, committed by an organized group, and illicit possession of ammunition.

All of them have given into custody. Property worth more than 2 billion of rubles has been confiscated. 

Criminal investigation continues. At the moment the investigators work with 20 established involvants.

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