By RIA Novosti,
Moscow : Police have seized 15 kg of heroin from two drug couriers in the Istra district to the west of Moscow, a police spokesman said on Monday.
Traffic police and officers of the federal anti-drugs service detained a woman on Sunday who was riding as a passenger in a car on the Volokolamsk highway. A second woman was detained while leaving the Moscow Region town of Dedovsk, the spokesman said.
The suspects were detained after a tipoff from St. Petersburg that a large amount of heroin was expected to be delivered in small portions to a drugs gang in the surrounding Leningrad Region, from Central Asia via the Moscow Region.
Most of the heroin sold in Russia is smuggled into the country via Tajikistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan, the world’s largest heroin producer.