MOSCOW, May 25 (RAPSI) – Former two-times kickboxing champion of Europe and ex-officer of the Russian anti-drug agency Alexander Bolshakov has been sentenced to 22 years in a high security penal colony for drug and arms trafficking, RAPSI correspondent reports from the St. Petersburg city court.

Bolshakov’s accomplice Alexey Anufriyev was sentenced to 22 years in prison while Yevgeny Gilani and Stanislav Brekhov were sentenced to 20 and 17 years jail terms.

According to case documents, in 2014 Bolshakov, who at some time served in Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), organized a criminal group to smuggle drugs in St. Petersburg. Investigators believe that Brekhov acting on Bolshakov’s order bought over 11 kilograms of cocaine in Uruguay in May-June 2014. On June 8, the Pulkovsky Customs Service officers found drugs in Brekhov’s personal luggage. Cocaine was expropriated, and Brekhov was arrested.

About a month later, Bolshakov, Anufriyev and Gilani were arrested. Firearms and ammunition were found during searches at Bolshakov’s home.

Jurors also found the defendants guilty of smuggling large party of drugs from Finland.

FSKN representatives have confirmed to RAPSI that Bolshakov was serving in the agency from 2006 till 2010.