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| Russian detained in Peru on suspicion of drug trafficking |
| 2023-09-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Peruvian police detained Russian citizen Artyom Safonov on suspicion of drug trafficking. This was reported on September 7 by the El Comercio newspaper , citing police colonel Javier Infante. “Employees <…> of the Peruvian National Police detained a reggaeton singer and a Russian citizen, they were selling [drugs] in the district of San Juan de Miraflores (province of Lima),” the report says. It is clarified that they mean 27-year-old Renzo Bonille Reyes and 39-year-old Russians Artyom Safonov, whom the publication called "a possible head of the San Juan Russian gang." It is also indicated that the police seized weapons and three kilograms of soft drugs from the detainees. As IA Regnum reported , on August 6, 2022, law enforcement officers of Abkhazia detained two Russians in Sukhum on suspicion of illegal acquisition and possession of drugs on an especially large scale. About 39 grams of a strong narcotic drug were confiscated from them. By a court decision, the Russians were arrested. |
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