Ukrainian and Bulgarian law enforcement officers have dismantled an international drug syndicate and detained eight people in a joint operation.
Ukraine's National Police announced details of the operation, according to Ukrinform.
"As a result of a large-scale special operation, officers of the Drug Crime Department of the Chernivtsi Regional Police, together with the National Police's Drug Crime Department, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), investigators from the Kyiv Region Police, and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Bulgaria, dismantled a transnational drug trafficking network," the National Police said.
Law enforcement officers shut down a clandestine drug laboratory and detained its organizer, a chemist, and six accomplices in Ukraine's Chernivtsi region. Authorities seized psychotropic substances and precursors worth more than UAH 40 million from the illegal operation.
According to the National Police, the first stage of the operation took place in Bulgaria, where officers dismantled a drug laboratory producing psychotropic substances for distribution across Europe.
