Drug police in Moscow Region have thwarted illegal manufacture of anabolic steroids and seized some 200,000 finished tablets, the public relations centre of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service told RIA.
"Federal Drug Control Service officials have carried out the latest in a series of operations to block the routes by which potent substances can leak into the illegal market. An inspection of a compound in Protvino, Moscow Region, of the Veda limited liability company, which officially makes biologically active supplements and veterinary products, revealed and thwarted illegal manufacture of Nerobol anabolic steroids which contain the potent substance metandienone", the press release says.
Drug police seized almost 40 kg of Nerobol tablets (some 200,000 individual pills), 300 g of metandienone, a machine to mould tablets and stamping presses, the public relations centre said.
A criminal investigation into this fact has been launched under the article "Illegal trafficking of potent substances for the purpose of sale". 

Source: RIA news agency, Moscow
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