The Tverskoy Court of Moscow in absentia has arrested another person involved in the case of an attempted smuggling of drugs from Argentina, Interfax was told on Monday by the acting press secretary of the court, Svetlana Maksimova. They became Andrei Kovalchuk, who is still hiding abroad and is on the international wanted list. Kovalchuk was a technical employee of the Russian Embassy in Argentina. A man was charged under articles:.

"Attempted smuggling of narcotic drugs" and "An attempt to illegally manufacture, sell or send narcotic drugs in an especially large amount". The accused faces punishment up to life imprisonment.

"Cocaine business" lasts a year and a half. Russian and Argentine special services succeeded in jointly preventing the dispatch to Moscow from Buenos Aires of nearly 400 kilograms of narcotic substance. "One of the former employees of the technical staff of our embassy in Buenos Aires, who were not working at that time, left a cargo in one of the basements of the school at the embassy, ??which, he assumed, could later be transported to Russia," the deputy head said. Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov. Earlier, three more people were arrested: Vladimir Kalmykov, Ishtimir Khudzhamov and Ali Abyanov. They were charged with attempting to smuggle and smuggle drugs. Arrested threatened with long terms of imprisonment.

On February 21, another suspect was arrested in connection with the organization of deliveries of cocaine to Russia -Ivan Bliznyuk. Thanks to the knowledge of the Russian language, Bliznyuk contacted the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs through international cooperation, studied and worked in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Moscow City Court, which left three suspects under arrest, said that not all participants are still established and there will probably be new detentions in this high-profile case. The investigation period for the "cocaine case" was extended until April 15.