MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - "Some time ago Moscow's organized crime police department received information from Perm region (the Urals) colleagues that a woman had left for Moscow to get a large batch of heroin and was going to sell it in Perm," the press service of the Organized Crime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry reported.
During a special operation, a member of a Tajik organized criminal group, 24-year-old female resident of Perm, was detained in Moscow. The police confiscated from the woman more than five kilograms of heroin packed in two plastic bags.
Experts estimated the heroin batch of Afghan origin, marked 777, exceeded $200,000 on the illegal market.
According to the UN Drug Control Commission, Afghanistan accounts for 75% of the world's raw opium production. By experts' estimates, some 3,600 tones of raw opium produced there make 360 tones of heroin.
The Russian Drug Control Agency reported that about a half of Afghan drugs was transferred to Europe through Iran and Pakistan, and up to 35% through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, with the remainder crossing Tajikistan.
Over 90% of the total volume of drugs and almost 100% of heroin recently confiscated by Russian border guards were seized on the Tajik-Afghan and Russian Kazakh borders.
