VORONEZH. Nov 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) have detained two drug dealers in the Voronezh region.
"An ethnic Chechen woman who was selling drugs offered furious resistance to arrest. More than 1.5kg of opium and scales for packing the drug were seized from her," Pavel Bolshunov, head of the public relations group in the regional FSB department, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The detainee has been engaged in the drug trade for a long time and has been convicted for it, he said.
Investigators do not rule out that the woman is related to selling drugs that come from Chechen guerillas.
An Azerbaijani man called Islam Giyamov, born in 1969, was detained for illegal delivery of opium to the region. He was also convicted for drug trafficking before.
More than 1kg of opium and USD26,000 were seized from the detainee.
Prosecutors have decided to launch criminal cases against the drug dealers and keep them in custody.
Both operations were carried out in interaction with the regional police department for combating illegal drug turnover.