A house with a drug lab was confiscated in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

      27 November 2025 09:20 Incidents

      In Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, following an appellate review, a residential house that was used as a drug laboratory was confiscated. The property was forfeited to the state at the initiative of the prosecutor's office.

      According to the regional prosecutor's office, the Fourth Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction granted the prosecutor's challenge to the sentence of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court. Earlier, a Nizhny Novgorod resident was found guilty of illegal manufacture of narcotics (part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and possession of precursors (part 2 of Article 228.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). She was sentenced to 9 years and 1 month of imprisonment to be served in a general-regime penal colony.

      The court found that from November 2022 to November 2023 the convict, together with an acquaintance whose criminal case was separated into a separate proceeding, purchased a dacha in the Bor urban district. A laboratory for producing mephedrone was set up in that house.

      As a result of operational measures, law enforcement halted the criminal activity. More than 21 kg of finished narcotic substance were seized from illegal circulation.

      During closing arguments, the state prosecutor insisted on the confiscation of the house and the adjacent plot of land. However, the court of first instance denied this request. The prosecutor appealed the decision, and the appellate instance ultimately found the prosecutor's arguments to be well-founded.

      The house and the land plot were forfeited to the state.

      Earlier it was reported that two mephedrone laboratories were shut down in the Bogorodsky and Borsky districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

      It is also recalled that drugs disguised as garlic were attempted to be passed to a detainee at the Dzerzhinsk temporary detention center.

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