The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the completion of the special operation “Poppy-2022”, which affected 71 regions of Russia. Police officers, FSB officers, customs officers, the National Guard, together with representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, combed the fields and arable land in search of drug-containing flora. Both wild and illegally cultivated plants have been found.
As noted in the department, during the survey of land plots of citizens, 72 thousand bushes of drug-containing plants were seized. 14.6 thousand of them are opium poppy, the rest is hemp. Over 31,000 foci of wild plants were destroyed on an area of more than 10 hectares.
“In total, 6,684 people were detained for committing crimes in the sphere of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs of natural origin, 11,249 administrative offenders,” said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk.
According to judicial statistics, according to Art. 231 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the illegal cultivation of plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances or their precursors in 2021, 481 people were convicted, only 32 people received a real prison term, the courts imposed fines in 156 cases, compulsory work in 130, 128 people received suspended sentences freedom.
State Duma deputy, head of the Sober Russia project Sultan Khamzaev said that in society the problem of drug-containing plants is underestimated and loyal to their presence in the fields. However, despite the fact that they can indeed be wild, this is actively used by drug dealers. They pass off cultivated plants as weeds, the deputy specified.
According to Khamzaev, the problem is especially relevant in Siberia, as well as in the Rostov and Leningrad regions.
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