RECORD AMOUNT OF MARIJUANA SEIZED IN INGUSHETIA
By empty (9/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Federal Drug Control Service has seized 1,126 kilograms of marijuana, some 563 million doses, in an operation in Ingushetia, the local drug control department told Interfax on Thursday. \"This amount of drugs is worth more than $1 million on the black market and is the largest consignment of drugs to have been seized in Russia in 2005,\" it said. \"The owner of the consignment has been identified and criminal charges have been brought against him,\" it said.Visit also
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