An international drug smuggling ring that supplied various narcotics in Pusan was broken up yesterday, said the Pusan Metropolitan Police Agency.

The police announced that they arrested eight Russian drug traffickers, including a 46-year-old former member of the Russian mafia, on the charge of distributing drugs to foreigners and citizens for the past three and a half years, using the shopping area of Choryang-dong in the southern port city.

The police also began a search for two Iranian dope peddlers, who brought in heroin, hashish and marijuana from the Middle East and provided them to the Russian gang.

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