MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - The Federal Drug Control Service caught a Moscow nightclub employee peddling drugs and has sent three dozen nightclub guests for a medical examination.
"Federal Drug Control Service officers have detained a nightclub employee on suspicion of dealing synthetic drugs. A search of the young man yielded hashish. He was also dealing amphetamines during the party," a source from the Federal Drug Control Service told Interfax on Monday.
"Some 35 of almost 200 nightclub guests were sent for drug tests. The tests confirmed that 31 of them were under the influence of narcotics," the source said.
The service's special-purpose forces raided the nightclub in Moscow's Basmanny district in the early morning hours of October 20.
The service said it was a pre-Halloween raid based on information that drug dealers were planning to distribute amphetamine, hashish and marijuana at the trance party.
"Officers of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service special-purpose forces, who entered the nightclub, caught the drug users by surprise. They dumped the drugs on the floor along the bar counter and on the dance floor and tried to stash them in the furniture in the sitting rooms," the source said.
Criminal cases were opened on the counts of drug storage and distribution, and administrative charges were brought against the drug users, he added.