Electronic cigarettes with cannabis oil and other drugs to the value of about 400,000 lei were confiscated. The leader and four members of the criminal group were arrested. During five months, these placed drugs in over 6,500 secret places, IPN reports.

The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases said the 24-year-old leader of the group is from the Transnistrian region but rented an apartment in Chisinau. The other members are aged between 16 and 18. At the prosecutors’ request, the suspects, except for two minors, were remanded in custody for 30 days.

Mini scales, hashish, marijuana, LSD stamps, Ecstasy pills, electronic cigarettes with cannabis oil and other things were confiscated from suspects’ homes as a result of searches. The electronic cigarettes with cannabis oil on the back market were sold for about US$120. Allegedly ill-gotten gains were found in a safe deposit box rented by the group leader at a bank.