Police arrest one, seize large amount of drugs at Kutaisi Airport
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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.
"Law enforcers have seized 40 pills of Buprenorphine as a result of a personal search of the detainee,” the MIA said in a statement released today.
The crime committed by the detainee is punishable 15 to 20 years of imprisonment or life imprisonment under the Georgian Criminal Code.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that they detained seven drug dealers yesterday in Tbilisi, Ponichala district and in the village of Karajala, in eastern Georgia.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that they have detained 7 drug dealers over the course of one week.
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.
The Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia came in parliament today to speak about the police raid in nightclubs in Tbilisi on May 12 and to answer to the lawmakers’ questions.
The investigators caught the offenders through a control purchase and hidden audio-video recording, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said today.
The detainee was found to have 3.5 kilograms of drugs on his person, including 1.119 kg heroin and 1.1935 kg of methamphetamine.