Lutheran pastor and his gang to be tried in Russia for dealing anabolic steroids.

"The Petrozavodsk court started investigating the case of a criminal group involved in supply and distribution of anabolic steroids.

According to the police files, a pastor from the Petrozavodsk Lutheran parish of the Holy Spirit, 44, organized a criminal group in July 2007.

Besides him, the group included a representative of the Karelian Bodybuilding Federation, 49, and two women aged 29 and 35, the elder woman was a bodybuilding coach.

They delivered banned drugs in a city sport club and offered them to the body-builders.

The State Drug Enforcement agency and Federal Security Council uncovered their criminal actions in March 2008 in course of a mutual operation. The criminal case was opened in compliance with Article 234 of the Russian Criminal Code (illegal trafficking of drastic or poisonous substances intended for distribution.) More than ten kinds of anabolic steroids listed in state register of medical products were confiscated. It makes about eight thousand tablets and two hundred various ampoules.

Major part of the confiscated drugs was kept in the church, where the group leader worked. During the search, the pastor voluntarily gave out his TT pistol to police officers.

All persons named in the case gave a written undertaking not to leave the city. "

This sounds more like a movie plot than real life !

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