The authorities say that the Russians and the Ukrainians are cooperating to form crime rings on the island of the most famous holidays in Indonesia.
Posted on September 19, 2025
An Indonesian court sentenced a Ukrainian man to life imprisonment for his role in a large -scale Russian -Ukrainian drug circle operating on the tourist island of Bali.
The Thai authorities arrested the Romanian Nazareth, who was running by Interpol, at Bangkok Airport in Sofarnabumi in December where he tried to flee to Dubai, then handed him over to Indonesia.
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Nazareko spent seven months escaping after the police raided the villa villas in Bali in May 2024, where he found a laboratory on the basement used to grow marijuana and produce an introduction to artificial drug ecstasy.
During the Nazarenco trial in the Dinbasar local court on Thursday, the prosecutors argued that he was one of the mastermind of the drug ring.
The Ukrainian claimed that he was deceived to join the ring and sat silently while the committee of three judges of life sentence.
“There is no reason to tolerate or justify the defendant. He deserves to be punished in a way that suits what he did,” said Judge Eni Martining.
“His crime can harm the mental state of the young generation.”
Martinos Holkum, head of the National Drugs Agency in Indonesia, said that there is an increasing case of Russians and Ukrainians who cooperate in crime rings on the island of the most famous holidays in Indonesia, said Martinos Holkum, head of the National Drugs Agency in Indonesia.
“This is a very unique phenomenon,” said Hakum.
“Two states are in war, but here in Bali, their citizens are partners in crime, and to participate in the smuggling of illegal drugs.”
The authorities also arrested two Ukrainian brothers, Mykyta Volovod, Ivan Volovod, a Russian man, Konstantin Krutz, during the previous raid on the villa. The same court sentenced each of the men to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors have argued that Volovod brothers were drug producers, while KRUTZ sold their products.
Prosecutors have also identified a Russian man, Oleg Tikashuk, who believed to be the mastermind of drug throat. It is still generally.
According to Volovod Brothers, TKACHUCK paid them $ 30,000 in September 2023 to install equipment in the villa to produce marijuana water and mephedron – used in the production of orgasm.
According to public prosecutors, Nazareko has recruited other convicted men for Takchuk, as well as equipment and marijuana seeds, and supervised laboratory operations.
Nazarenco argued in court that he was deceived by Takshek and expressed his remorse for his role in the drug process.
Indonesia has some of the most drug laws in the region, where drug smugglers are sometimes carried out by shooting.
Meanwhile, Bali has become a magnet for thousands of people from Russia and Ukraine fleeing the horrors of war since the launch of President Vladimir Putin. Widespread In early 2022.
Russian visitors, in particular, doubled more than three times between 2022 and 2024 – grows from 57860 to 180,215 last year.
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