cocaine

Drug trafficking in the Russian diplomatic pouch, Argentina, 2018

Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Argentina, case № 17882/2016. accusation act from 21 May 2018 against a criminal group composed “minimum of” Alexander Chikalo, Ivan Blizniuk, Andrey Kovalchuk, Ali Abyanov, Ishtimir (Timur Khudzhamov), accused of drug traffiquing via Russian diplomatic mail. Police operation is called “12 reinas” (12 queens), after 12 suit cases with drugs found …

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St Petersburg press article, 1993: the detained one metric ton of cocaine will be recycled for medical purposes

Nevskoye Vremya’s press article from February 25, 1993, St Petersburg, titled: “we will be treated by cocaine”. On February 21, 1993, St. Petersburg’s  Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation (known as UMBR, the predecessor to FSB) announced that it intercepted «an attempted ton of cocaine into Russia» at the Vyborg border …

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