Breaking Bad. Ukrainian Style
In a scene eerily reminiscent of the hit TV series about a teacher who decides to manufacture and sell high-grade drugs, a Kyiv chemistry professor has been arrested for setting up a lab to produce methamphetamine, rferl.org reports.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said in a Facebook post that the unidentified professor, who used to teach chemistry at a university in the capital, had been detained on suspicion of organizing a group to manufacture illegal substances.
“The group had two secret labs, one at the group leader’s place of residence in [Kyiv], and another in a garage of a rented private house in the Kyiv region,” the SBU statement said, adding that in addition to making his own drugs, the professor used his expertise to instruct others on how to make drugs.
The SBU said preliminary findings showed group members planned to produce nearly 30 kilograms of psychotropic drugs worth about 7.5 million hryvnyas ($275,000) at black-market prices.