According to arrested personnel from one such facility, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, operated illicit drug laboratories in Russia that were run by people who had to pass a polygraph exam to acquire the job.
A familiar SBU officer advised that Alexander P., a Ukrainian national who was responsible for setting up one such laboratory in the Moscow region and has been held since 2020, go to Russia and get into the drug trade, according to Alexander P.
Alexander had to take a lie detector test before he could leave to see if he was qualified for the job.
"They put me in a hostel near a railway station. I spent about a week there waiting for the interview, and all that time there were constant visitors, people like me, who had to pass an interview and then go to work with drugs in Russia. Several dozen people left [for Russia] during my stay, for sure. During the polygraph test, they were interested in questions like whether I was going to steal money and if I had l...