The defendant in the “cocaine business” has never worked in the Russian Embassy in Germany
MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. Suspected of organizing drug smuggling from Argentina Andrei Kovalchuk has never worked in the Russian Embassy in Berlin, reported the press attache of the Russian Embassy Denis Mikerin.
Earlier that Kovalchuk, a former employee of the Russian Embassy, said a number of media.
“I can responsibly say that, according to our data, A. Kovalchuk the Russian Embassy in Germany has never worked,” wrote Mikerin on his page in Facebook.
The Argentine authorities earlier reported that during a joint operation of special services of Russia and Argentina managed to stop the delivery to Moscow of 389 kilograms of cocaine and arrest in Argentina a few people, including members of the local police and a native of Russia. Bags of drugs found in the territory of the Russian Embassy, and about the discovery of the Argentine police told Russian diplomats.
The organizer of the group involved in the smuggling of cocaine from Argentina, hiding in Germany, he declared internationally wanted by Interpol, said on Monday the public relations Center of Federal security service of the Russian Federation. The Tver court of Moscow arrested in absentia Andrey Kovalchuk as one of the defendants in the case about the attempt of drug smuggling from Argentina. According to the newspaper La Nacion, the helper, whom the publication calls “Mr. C.”, lives in Berlin, he was born in 1968 and works as a sales representative tobacco company Habanos.