Drug cases are the ones that most often bring foreign nationals into Russian custody, and they are built on a narrow set of documents: the search record, the expert report on substance and weight, and the file of the operational measures that preceded the arrest. Konstantin works through all three in every case.
The results in this area come from specific things — a chain of custody with a gap in it, a weight that determines the part of the article and was never independently checked, a test purchase repeated after the offence was already documented. He also handles the reclassification argument from Article 228.1 to Article 228, which in these cases is worth more than anything else available.
