Director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service Victor Ivanov said that 187kg of heroine worth $18 million had been confiscated at the Vegeta Market in Dolgoprudny in the Moscow Region, RBC reports.
The portion could have been sold for $180-200 million. The market was under control of Azerbaijani natives.
Two criminals were arrested and two citizens were detained. The receiver of the shipment Gaziyev had citizenships of Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. He was put on the wanted list in 2006 for involvement in illegal armed formations.
