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14Mar14

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Russia liquidates 900 drug syndicates in 2013

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Russia liquidated almost 900 drug syndicates in 2013, head of the Federal Drugs Control Service Viktor Ivanov told a meeting of the service's collegium on Friday.

Last year more than 12,600 criminal cases related to organized crimes were investigated, of them 10,000 - by the Federal Drugs Control Service.

Russia's law enforcers thwarted more than 231,000 drug-related crimes. Almost 118,000 people were brought to criminal responsibility, of them almost 3,500 are foreign citizens and over 4,000 - residents of Central Asian states with Russian passports.

[Source: Itar Tass, Moscow, 14Mar14]

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