STAVROPOL. Dec 2 (Interfax-AVN) - A large batch of smuggled medicines containing drugs was seized on the Abkhaz section of the Russian-Georgian border on Thursday.
"While checking an ambulance car going from Abkhazia to Russia, the personnel of the Adler-Avtodorozhny checkpoint found over 2,000 smuggled packs of drug-containing medicines," Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Livantsov, press service chief of the North Caucasus regional border guard directorate, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The car driver was detained, while the car and the contraband were handed over to law-enforcement agencies, Livantsov said.
According to the press service, the directorate personnel seized 40 pieces of arms, about 10,000 pieces of ammunition, smuggled goods worth over $1.5 million, and over 31kg of drugs from January to November 2004.
"Over 30 members of illegal armed formations and over 1,000 violators of the state border were detected and detained," Livantsov added.