The release indicates that a drug lab was dismantled in Pavlodar, with the operation carried out on January 18 of this year by the KNB Department for the Pavlodar region, in coordination with the prosecutor's office and with the involvement of the special forces unit "Berkut" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"A citizen of Kazakhstan was detained while producing psychotropic substances and has been taken into custody by court order. During the search, over 20 kg of the narcotic "Mephedrone" was seized, along with laboratory equipment and more than 1.5 tons of precursors."Press Service of the KNB
The agency clarified that a pre-trial investigation is underway under part 3 of article 297 ("Illegal production, processing, acquisition, storage, transportation for the purpose of sale, mailing or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogs") of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
As explained by the KNB, other information, in accordance with part 1 of article 201 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is not subject to disclosure.
It was previously reported that a large dropper cell was dismantled in Kazakhstan.