In the Zaporozhye region, the channel for the supply of methadone to the occupied part of the Donetsk region was blocked.

The press service of the SBU reports..

Drugs in ORDO were sent not through the contact line, but across the border with the Russian Federation. Several "

The illegal scheme was organized by an unemployed woman from Kiev, who attracted to the case a "

According to the investigation, the attackers hid illegal substances in flowerpot jugs and garden sculptures.. And they were forwarded to their accomplices in the Russian Federation under the guise of household parcels. Packages were transferred through minibus drivers who carry out irregular passenger transportation.

From Russia, " There it was packaged and sold.

The channel has existed for almost a year. Every month, the attackers smuggled 2-3 consignments of narcotic substances in this way, each of which cost about 4 million hryvnia at black market prices.

During a special operation, law enforcement officers detained a minibus driver while trying to export methadone weighing more than 1.4 kg.

As part of the criminal proceedings, the organizer of the channel was detained and informed about the suspicion of h. 2 st. 305 (smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors or counterfeit drugs) and h. 3 st. 307 (illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, transfer or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.