The court sentenced 14 participants of the interregional drug community

The Moscow regional court announced the conviction against 14 members of the criminal community operating in the field of drug trafficking. Their guilt is recognized as proven under a number of grave and especially grave articles of the Criminal Code: from organizing the illegal production of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale and attempts to sell them via the Internet to drug smuggling and participation in a criminal community.

As the investigation established and the court confirmed, the community members lived in different regions of the country - Saratov, Ryazan, Moscow regions and Khabarovsk Territory. They were part of a single organized structure engaged in drug trafficking. In the period from 2022 to 2024, the convicts sold prohibited substances through one of the shadow Internet platforms, and they were produced at the place of residence of the defendants.

In addition, the attackers established a smuggling channel: drugs were delivered by air from the Moscow region to the Far East and the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Criminal activity was suppressed and more than 160 kilograms of drugs were seized from illicit trafficking.

Taking into account the position of the state prosecutor of the Moscow Region Prosecutor’s Office, the court sentenced the defendants to imprisonment for terms from 11 to 18 years in a strict regime correctional colony.

The sentence has not yet entered into force. The criminal case against the organizer of the community and its other participants has been separated into a separate proceeding and the investigation is ongoing.