Two residents of Perm were convicted of producing and supplying narcotic drugs to Europe and Armenia

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Perm sentenced two residents of Perm to long terms of imprisonment in the case of the production and supply of narcotic drugs to Europe and Armenia, the regional prosecutor's office reports .

Both were found guilty of illegal production of narcotic drugs on an especially large scale (points “a”, “d” of Part 3 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code as amended by the federal law of December 8, 2003). According to Lenta.ru , 35-year-old Ilya Kudryavtsev, the son of the founder of the drug business, was sentenced to 17 years in prison and a fine of 100 thousand rubles, and 61-year-old candidate of chemical sciences Alexander Nedugov was sentenced to 12 years. They will serve their sentence in a maximum security colony.

The case against Kudryavtsev’s father, Pavel, a chemistry professor and the alleged founder of the drug business, has been separated into separate proceedings, since the man is on the international wanted list.

Also, sentences with long terms of imprisonment were handed down in Armenia by participants in a clandestine amphetamine laboratory who collaborated with Perm residents.

According to the case file, from 2002 to 2010, a father and son from Perm, together with an acquaintance, were engaged in the industrial production of precursors (substances often used in the production, manufacture, processing of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances).

To produce and sell products, they created LLC Scientific and Production Enterprise Trivektr and Ural-Khimtekhprom. The candidate of chemical sciences was developing technology for the production of narcotic substances, the prosecutor’s office clarifies.

“Chemists sold tons of the produced precursor to fly-by-night companies for subsequent smuggling from Russia. Traces of their products were found in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Poland, Germany, Holland and Belarus,” the supervisory authority said in a statement. The defendants also developed technology for masking the drug when law enforcement agencies found the source of the precursor. In Armenia, where the drug was also supplied, it was received by people trained to extract substances from a disguised precursor to make amphetamine.

According to the prosecutor's office, the defendants supplied more than ten tons of products to Armenia, from which about six tons of amphetamine-hydrochloride could be created.

Lenta.ru wrote that Pavel Kudryavtsev, the father of the convict, had been producing and selling a small range of chemical products since 1999: the main product was methyl benyl ketone (or BMK). According to the Federal Drug Control Service, this substance is used as raw material for clandestine drug laboratories. In 2010, a complete ban on BMK was introduced in Russia; before that, its circulation was almost unregulated.