Moscow, 3 December 2013. PenzaNews. The Moscow City Court upheld the measure against the head of the chemical-analytical laboratory of Penza Research Institute of Agriculture Olga Zelenina, who had asked for lifting of the travel ban. Currently, Olga Zelenina has to live in Moscow, not at home in Lunino village of the Penza region.

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According to her lawyer Valery Shukhardin, the preliminary investigation stage has been completed, and the accused started getting familiar with materials of the case.

He explained that several episodes were added to the case: a year ago his client was incriminated the aiding of attempted smuggling and preparation for the illegal sale of drugs, while now there was added Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Organization of a Criminal Community (Criminal Organization).”

Valery Shukhardin also added that the investigators found few drug addicts who confirmed that they had prepared drugs from the poppy bought from the businessman Sergei Shilov, who was detained in 2010 by the Bryansk customs for an attempt to import 42 tons of confectionary poppy from Spain.

According to experts of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, the poppy contained morphine, codeine and tebaine. The employee of the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture Olga Zelenina, who Sergei Shilov had applied to, concluded that the percentage of drugs in the imported poppy was at the level of natural impurities and that is was impossible to synthesize drug from it.

As a result, the criminal proceedings were brought in respect of Olga Zelenina, Novye Izvestia newspaper reports.