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"It has been preliminarily established that the offender created an online store in the shadow segment of the Internet, offering various types of narcotics. At the same time, the goods were delivered through one of the popular marketplaces in our country," said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General of Police Irina Volk.

Thanks to the vigilance of belize whatsapp number database the warehouse employees, a suspicious substance was found in the seller's parcel immediately upon its arrival at the warehouse. The seller had never worked at our warehouse. The standard quality control procedure allowed us to quickly detect the substitution of the goods. Our security service found a prohibited substance in the box, we immediately tracked and blocked the delivery in all regions where the seller wanted to send it, and did not allow the goods to be sold. We immediately contacted law enforcement agencies, handed over all items from the delivery and shared the necessary information. Thanks to the Ozon control system and prompt cooperation with law enforcement, we were able to identify and detain the suspect in the crime."

If we combine the two versions of events, the real store was on the darknet. There, drugs were advertised without "disguises." The marketplace acted only as a means of delivery, where the goods were disguised as something legally neutral. The client, who had already paid on the darknet, bought a "tea bag" for a symbolic amount. Obviously, the weakest point in this scheme was the delivery of the goods to the marketplace warehouse with subsequent storage. And, if we are to believe the Ozon press service, this is where the scheme broke down.

Mikhail German, a partner at the Varshavsky & Partners law firm, noted that crime schemes are changing and criminals are always looking for new ways, because time and technology do not stand still. "In addition, the main goal of such schemes is not to be caught and to get the maximum benefit. The choice in favor of the marketplace is due not so much to the volume of clients, because officially prohibited substances were not sold, they were sold on the so-called darknet, but rather because of the method of transportation, since the marketplace delivery service does not check the contents of parcels sent to buyers. Especially if the goods are sent from the warehouses of the marketplaces already packaged by the seller. In order not to make a mistake with the delivery, detailed instructions for darknet visitors are posted on the distributor's website," this is the version of the scheme by Mikhail German, a partner at the Varshavsky & Partners law firm, outlined by him for ComNews.

Pavel Katkov, founder of the law firm Future Legal, believes that the situation could have become possible because there cannot be total control over the goods on the marketplace.

"The marketplace is not a state post office or customs service, so the control, of course, may be less," he told a ComNews correspondent. "I don't think the goal was to expand trade. The marketplace is just a sales tool. Not its source. And it is unlikely that there were any drug dealers' methods to attract new people. I don't believe that a healthy person can be attracted to drug use through a package. Besides, "on a large scale" such mailings will be quickly identified and stopped - which is what we are witnessing."

Information about the incident appeared in the media the day after the law on marketplaces was introduced to the State Duma. Mikhail German called it an accident. Pavel Katkov is also far from conspiracy theories: "It could well be a coincidence. There is simply increased attention to marketplaces in general."

"The new trend is umbrella drug trafficking. This unprecedented case will go down in history as the first attempt to sell illegal goods on a legal platform. And the fact that this case was presented to the general public the day after the draft law on marketplaces was introduced to the State Duma, the letter of which, to put it mildly, is not complimentary to "aggregators of information about goods", will be forgotten, - a ComNews source close to a large marketplace ironically says. - And now everyone should ask themselves: what's next? Weapons? Nuclear materials? Illegal trade in organs? People? After all, the scheme was potentially flawless and could have scaled the "business" many times over, taking into account the unprecedented capabilities of the marketplace."