The jury in the Bryansk court acquitted all the defendants in the “poppy case”

The jury in the Bryansk Regional Court acquitted all the defendants in the poppy case, according to the court's website.

"By the verdict of the jury, all the defendants are acquitted on all counts,"

— said the representative of the court.

Among those whose decision was announced on December 21 was businessman Sergei Shilov, who tried to bring two batches of poppies to Russia in 2010. They were detained at customs, and then the Federal Drug Control Service discovered the presence of substances of the opium group on them and opened a case on “drug smuggling”.

The announcement of the verdict in the case of "smuggling" of confectionery poppy began on December 20 and lasted two days. On the first day, the jury acquitted the first seven defendants in the case out of 13 people, including the chemist Olga Zelenina (she was accused of complicity with the criminal community because in the draft of answers to the questions of the importer Sergei Shilov, prepared by her on behalf of the director, she wrote that the poppy was completely opium alkaloids cannot be purified).