During the operational-search activities, it was established that the suspect, from his office computer, using cryptographic Internet messengers, purchased narcotic drugs, administered a network of 5 online stores selling drugs in the closed segment “DarkNet”, and directly carried out business negotiations with buyers about size and cost of doses, determined the forms and mechanisms of financial mutual settlements, coordinated the activities of couriers in their packaging and targeted placement, provided information to the end user about bookmark locations.
According to the collected evidence base Z.Kh. Kerefov has been carrying out illegal drug trafficking activities since 2020, including among RTA employees.
Investigative actions were also carried out against three more employees of the customs academy who confessed to purchasing drugs from the suspect for personal use – Vice-Rector for Financial and Economic Affairs D.A. Pershin, head of the department of work with students M.V. Ponomareva, employee of the documentary support department L.S. Loshkareva.
In addition, Russian FSB officers uncovered and suppressed the activities of a laboratory producing synthetic drugs in the interests of the suspect. The organizer of a drug laboratory and two accomplices in illegal production were detained.
The use of increased measures of secrecy by the organizer and employees of the drug laboratory, which was located in one of the private houses of the residential area, deserves attention. The entrance to the drug laboratory, equipped with a pneumatic lift system, was located under the bathroom floor.
During searches in the offices of RTA employees, five homes and a drug laboratory, 62 kg of mephedrone (4-methylmeicatinone), 750 liters of narcotic liquid, various precursors, high-tech laboratory equipment, including a chemical reactor, cash in the amount of 7 million rubles and 31 thousand US dollars.
Regarding Z.Kh. Kerefov and the organizers of the drug laboratory of the Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Moscow Region, 3 criminal cases were opened under paragraph “g”, part 4 of Art. 228.1 (illegal sale of narcotic drugs on a large scale), part 5, art. 228.1 (illegal production of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale), part 3, art. 30, part 5. art. 228.1 (attempted illegal sale of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale), paragraphs. “a”, “d”, part 4 art. 228.1 1 (illegal sale of narcotic drugs by an organized group on a large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
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