Interior ministry arrest alleged online drug trafficker in Tbilisi
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Law enforcement operatives have arrested an individual in Georgia's capital Tbilisi with a charge of transporting and storing illicit substances at 1,709 locations in the city before selling them.
Georgia's interior ministry announced on Friday a Russian citizen had been arrested during their attempt at concealing substances in a park adjacent to Tbilisi Sea territory.
Born in 1988, the individual was apprehended with 18 packages of the drug hashish, discovered during personal search. Police officers involved in the arrest also found 119 more packages of the drug in the park and 61 at the apartment of the person.
The ministry also said a police investigation had revealed the arrested individual had intermittently visited Georgia over the last three years to conceal drug substances at various locations in Tbilisi.
Photographing the locations, they then supplied information on the spots to customers, ministry announcement said.
The release of the law enforcement body noted the evidence for the criminal acts had been recovered from electronic devices used by the arrested.
The Interior Ministry continues its "uncompromising fight” against drug trafficking in cooperation with the Prosecutors Office, reads the statement by the ministry.
A 26-year-old woman and 23-year-old man have been charged with distribution of narcotics online. A 26-year-old woman and 23-year-old man have been charged with distribution of narcotics online.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reported at a special briefing in the afternoon that they have detained seven narco traffickers who possessed and sold drugs in especially large quantities.
Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia believes that prevention and rehabilitation are among the most important steps for improving the drug-related situation in the country.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia announced today that from mid-May they have seized 4 kg heroin, 2,000 pills of subutex and suboxone, 100 gr cocaine, 200 gr MDMA, 150 gr new psychoactive substances and 150 gr psychographic substances.
Georgian law enforcers carried out the extradition of an individual wanted by Kazakhstan on June 24, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The investigators caught the offenders through a control purchase and hidden audio-video recording, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said today.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has stated that over the course of the first 10 months of 2018, 192 drug dealers have been detained in the Ponichala district of Tbilisi alone.
Deputy Director of Ltd. Regional Healthcare Center Nugzar J. has been detained for assistance in receiving bribes in large quantities for the Head of the State Regulatory Agency for Medical Activities of the Ministry of Health of Georgia Gia Tvalavadze.