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The Security Service investigations department for Zaporizhia region initiated a criminal case into drug smuggling. The Ukrainian Security Service, with the help of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service, have caught a drug trafficking group and have opened a criminal case against the suspects, the Ukrainian Security Service reported on Mar. 9.

"Three offenders, including one woman, arranged a channel for smuggling a medicine called Terofun, which includes a precursor, pseudoephedrine, to Moscow from Zaporizhia. This medicine was used to make the psychotropic substance methamphetamine in a clandestine lab in Moscow," it said.

The Security Service investigations department for Zaporizhia region initiated a criminal case into drug smuggling.

Ukrainian Security Service and customs officers uncovered 37,000 pills of Terofun while searching the belongings of Russian female passengers on a train heading from Simferopol to Moscow on March 7. Russian Federal Drug Control Service officers detained five other members of the drugs group.

Law enforcement agencies also seized firearms, ammunition, jewelry, and a large number of Turkish-made pills during an apartment search said to belong to the suspected head of the group