According to investigators, from January 2016 to December 2020, in several regions of the European part of Russia, criminals sold synthetic drugs in significant, large and especially large quantities.
Distribution was carried out contactlessly through several online stores.
Proceeds from drug trafficking were transferred to electronic wallets controlled by the defendants, which were registered to unauthorized persons who were not aware of the illegal activities. Then, to conceal the source of their origin, the money was transferred several times to other accounts. At the same time, in order to exclude the possibility of identifying payments, they were arbitrarily divided into small amounts that did not fall under the established control limits.
Thus, according to the materials of the financial investigation of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring, as well as the materials of the criminal case and the conclusion of a comprehensive forensic accounting and financial and economic examination, more than 2 billion rubles were legalized, acquired as a result of the illegal sale of narcotic drugs as part of a criminal community.
During operational search activities and investigative actions, police officers identified 70 crimes under Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. 63 suspects were detained and also charged with a crime under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. More than 22 kg of narcotic drugs were seized from illegal trafficking.
In the near future, an investigator from the Office for Investigation of Organized Criminal Activities in the Sphere of Illegal Drug Trafficking of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will charge members of a criminal organization with committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
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