On October 24, the prosecution asked to sentence a student from Khabarovsk, Andrey Moroztsev, to 11 years in a penal colony in a case involving the shipment and attempted smuggling of drugs on a large scale, reported «7×7»* a source familiar with the proceedings.
Moroztsev's defense stated during the arguments that he ordered the medication on the recommendation of a foreign doctor and did not conceal its shipment. The lawyer noted that modafinil and armodafinil are not banned in Russia but are recognized as restricted, meaning they require medical indications, and Moroztsev has been officially diagnosed with «idiopathic hypersomnia».
Moroztsev suffers from hypersomnia — a rare and incurable disease leading to increased sleepiness. To alleviate the condition, medications based on modafinil or armodafinil are used, the smuggling of which the student is accused of.
In the spring of 2023, the student ordered the medication from India by mail and became a subject of a criminal case. During the trial, the defense claimed possible case falsification: the student's package was opened twice, and initially, there were tablets with one label, and later with another.
In December 2024, the court returned Moroztsev's case for further investigation. Both the student's defense and the state prosecutor opposed this, but the judge did it on his own initiative. In May 2025, the charges against the student were intensified.
* Recognized in Russia as a «foreign agent».