Interior Ministry: large quantities of drugs seized since mid-May
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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.
Fighting against drug crimes and drug dealing is one of the key priorities for the Interior Ministry of Georgia,” the ministry said.
Our goal is to maximally decrease the negative effect caused by drug consumption,” the ministry added.
The Interior Ministry says that between May and June 8 individuals have been charged for drug dealing, four of which are citizens of Iran.
All four Iranians have been charged with the possession and sale of heroin and other drugs in large quantities, envisaging 8-20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
The other detainees are the citizens of Georgia.
Over the course of the past six months the Interior Ministry:
- Has seized 13 kg of heroin.
- 7,000 pills of subutex and suboxone.
- 1 kg and 300 gr of cocaine.
- Up to 2kn MDMA.
- 650gr new psychoactive substances.
- Up to 1kg psychotropic substances.
- During the reported period 72 individuals have been charged for drug crimes.
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.
The Interior Ministry continues its "uncompromising fight” against drug trafficking in cooperation with the Prosecutors Office, reads the statement by the ministry.
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.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced the detention of a Georgian drug dealer who imported especially large amount of drugs from Turkey to Georgia via an emergency car.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has published statistical data concerning the arrested of wanted individuals during the first six months of the current year.
A Georgian citizen born in 1974 with several prior convictions has been arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at Kutaisi International Airport for an attempt to enter the country with a large amount of drugs.
The investigators caught the offenders through a control purchase and hidden audio-video recording, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said today.
A man attending a music festival died in Anaklia last night. The MIA has started an investigation but did not reveal possible reasons behind his death while awaiting autopsy results.
Head of the State Regulatory Agency for Medical Activities of the Ministry of Health of Georgia Gia Tvalavadze and 19 others have been charged for their involvement in the illegal sale of psychotropic drugs in 15 pharmacies of Tbilisi and Gori, the Georgian State Security Service reported.
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.