
Subutex is a substitute for heroine that is prescribed by doctors to drug addicts in order to help them quit.
A profitable criminal scheme that was transporting large quantities of a heroin substitute across Europe and into Ukraine has been dismantled starting on May 22 as the result of a coordinated investigation carried out by Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU), French and Polish police, according to French newspaper Le Parisien and the SBU.
The 11 men involved, who have been arrested and charged, transported a medicine called ‘Subutex’ – a generic name for buprenorphine, a drug from the psychotropic family that is prescribed to heroin addicts – from Marseille, a southern French port city on the Mediterranean Sea, to Ukraine.
French and Ukrainian police have not said for how long they believe the criminal scheme was ongoing but it would have been made easier by the visa-free travel regime that Ukraine now has with most of the European Union. Police said the suspects probably made a little more than 10 million euros in total.
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