Fri Mar 2 07:47:08 2001








*  INCREASE IN RUSSIA OF THE NUMBER OF CRIMES AND OFFENCES DREGS TO
THE STUPEFIANTS


MOSCOW, March 2.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti ").  During five dernieres
years the number of crimes and offences dregs with stupefiants A
increases of more than twice the and half one in Russia.  It is what
has ete announces Thursday during a point of press gives by Oleg
Kharitchkine, head of the Center of coordination interdepartementale
of the fight against the traffic of stupefiants close the Russian
ministry of the Interior.

The year derniere, 57.720 cases of opiate sale have ete note in the
country, that is to say 40 percent more than in 1999.  Significant
batches of stupefiants coming from the Centrasiatique area have ete
seized.  Two of them, respectively 113 and 60 kilogrammes of heroin,
have ete intercept in the area of Tcheliabinsk (the Ural) and the area
of Tioumen (Siberie Western), has it releve.  244.000 crimes or
offences dregs with the traffic of drug have ete prevenus.
Continuations have ete engagees against some 135.000 people.

The bodies of maintenance about Russia maintain the contacts in this
field with 70 structures of foreign countries, A indicates Oleg
Kharitchkine.  The attention is accordee in priority has the
co-operation within the framework of the Community of the States
independants (CEI) and the Memorandum on comprehension and
collaboration in the field of the repression of the illicit traffic of
the stupefiants in Central Asia.