Russia liquidates 900 drug syndicates in 2013 - drugs control service chief

MOSCOW, March 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russia liquidated almost 900 drug syndicates in 2013, head of the Federal Drugs Control Service Viktor Ivanov told a meeting of the service’s collegium on Friday. Last year more than 12,600 criminal cases related to organised crimes were investigated, of them 10,000 - by the Federal Drugs Control Service. Russia’s law enforcers thwarted more than 231,000 drug-related crimes. Almost 118,000 people were brought to criminal responsibility, of them almost 3,500 are foreign citizens and over 4,000 - residents of Central Asian states having Russian passports.