Russian surgeon arrested for stealing heroin from suspected drug courier's stomach

A surgeon suspected of helping himself to a packet of heroin that he found in a patient's stomach during surgery is facing 15 years in prison.

The incident took place in the Bogotol hospital in the Krasnoyarsk region, during surgery on a man suspected of being a drug courier, who happened to be concealing a batch of drugs in his stomach.



After the operation "police searched the surgeon and confiscated a packet containing five grams of heroin, which he had hidden in his clothes," the police said in a statement.

The surgeon has been charged with unlawful purchase, stealing and possessing narcotic substances in large quantities.