On the morning of June 27, Moscow law enforcement officials arrested well-known criminal Kamo Safaryan at the "Pakhlava" restaurant. The 48 year-old underworld figure, who had recently returned from Brazil, was found with 11 kilos of hashish in his possession. Mr. Safaryan, who has a long criminal record, is known as one of the more prominent underworld figures in post-Soviet countries but he hasn't been charges with any crimes for the past fifteen years. According to the program "Prime Crime" Mr. Safaryan was forced to flee Moscow in 1994. He eventually took up residence in Nizhni Novgorod. After a period of criminal intercine warfare, Mr. Safaryan decided to leave for Yalta. After a few years of relative calm, during which he was able to carry our his criminal activities, the Ukrainian police cracked down and banned him from the country after charging him with cannabis possession. A year later he was again arrested with a number of Armenian criminal cohorts and charged with the planning of a major theft in the capital of Kiev. All were again deported from the country