ILLEGAL TRAFFIC OF MANganese

POWER AND PEOPLE

So imperceptibly the thirty-seventh year crept up to us. There are no more "extreme huts" left; they knock on the first one that comes across. GNK can plant anyone. And there is no control over this power. Neither presidential criticism nor reproaches from the prosecutor's office help....

So imperceptibly the thirty-seventh year crept up to us. There are no more "extreme huts" left; they knock on the first one that comes across. GNK can plant anyone. And there is no control over this power. Neither presidential criticism nor reproaches from the prosecutor's office help. A typical example: some time ago, Viktor Cherkesov, the head of the State Drug Control Service, publicly repented of the repressions against veterinarians. The audience rejoiced - the doctors will be left alone! But Cherkesov is not so terrible as his enterprising subordinates.

In Moscow, other doctors are already being judged - human ones. The case of Nikolai Trukhin is in full swing. He is a narcologist, caught on a banal provocation. I came to the call, tried to help a person who really needed this help. Now he is charged with the sale of a potent drug. The main trump card of the accusation is that Trukhin did not properly formalize relations with the employer. He worked without a work book.

Across the country, pharmacies, hospitals and even - you will be surprised - schools are being checked. In any chemistry room there is sulfuric acid or, in extreme cases, hydrochloric acid. And these are precursors - substances that can be used to make drugs. They must be stored and accounted for in a special way. And God forbid not to lace up the register.

For comparison: this year, the State Drug Control Service seized about 500 tons of precursors, and in 2003, in the first six months of its existence, only a little more than a ton.

The space for fighters against drug crime is not rubber. They are already cramped in our country: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the border service. Now the State Drug Control Service has also appeared, in terms of numbers comparable to all the other services of the drug fighters combined.

Drug cops endlessly report on the effectiveness of their own work. Comparisons with the Ministry of Internal Affairs are especially revealing. Sometimes it turns out that the State Tax Committee seizes more potions than the MVD anti-trafficking departments. From which conclusions are immediately drawn that the State Drug Control Service works better.

“No one takes into account one moment,” they say in the operational-investigative bureau for combating drug trafficking of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Our statistics are different. We ascertain the amount of seized substance in criminal cases, i.e. We include in the reports what we managed to prove. And they report on the RAM. We have already told them more than once that they should mark “according to the information of the Federal Drug Control Service” in their reports. So that everyone can immediately understand what these numbers are.

PS Potassium permanganate, which you keep at home, is also a precursor. And Gosnarkokontrol has the right to control its turnover, if such a need arises.