GREAT AMOUNT OF DRUGS STOPPED IN SVERDLOVSK REGION

EKATERINBURG, November 2 (AVN) - Criminals tried to transport 16 kilograms of heroin, eight kilogram of hashish and 138 kilogram of opium from Tajikistan to Ekaterinburg.

Criminals hid drugs in a petrol tank of the KAMAZ lorry, loaded with onion.

Four citizens of Tajikistan and a man from Ekaterinburg are suspected in the crime. They are captured.

That is the biggest consignment of drugs caught in the Ural region, the head of the local anti-drug department Valery Kurennoi told the Military News Agency.