98 charged for drug crimes in past 7 months
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says that 98 individuals have been charged for drug crimes over the past seven months.
In the reported period the ministry seized:
- Up to 15 kg of heroin.
- 7,191 pills of subutex and suboxone.
- 1.4 kg of cocaine.
- Up to 2 kg of MDMA.
- 1.2 kg of hashish.
- Up to 1kg of new psychoactive drugs and pills.
The Interior Ministry is actively fighting against drug crimes and the sale of drugs via the internet,” the ministry stated.
The Interior Ministry representative announced that over the course of the past several days law enforcers have detained five Georgian citizens in Tbilisi and Kakheti, aged between 20 and 26, who were selling a new psychoactive drug known as pink amphetamine via the internet.
The detainees are facing 7-14 years in prison.
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 has announced the detention of a Georgian drug dealer who imported especially large amount of drugs from Turkey to Georgia via an emergency car.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of an especially large quantity of drugs, including 19,45gr of heroin.
Georgian police have uncovered almost 200kg of drugs hidden inside a secret compartment in a cargo container travelling through Georgia on the back of a truck.
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.
Georgian Interior Ministry has seized 25 kg heroin and detained 143 drug dealers so far this year, the ministry’s Central Criminal Police Department head Vladimer Bortsvadze stated today at a press briefing.
Zurab Japaridze, the founder of the opposition party Girchi and the presidential candidate for the elections which are scheduled in one week, has been arrested at the cannabis legalization festival at Dedaena Park today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reports it has detained seven drug dealers over the course of the past two weeks.
Georgian police have detained one Portuguese and two Iranian citizens this week for smuggling drugs into Georgia in especially large quantities.
A US citizen born in 1976 was arrested today at Tbilisi International Airport for attempting to bring in large quantities of drugs into the country.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has burned more than one tonne of drugs seized during investigations.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has seized half a kilogram of heroin after the detention of one individual in the Kvemo Kartli region.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained an Iranian citizen when he illegally crossed the border to smuggle in 8 kg and 500 grams of heroin into Georgia.
A Tbilisi court has sentenced a drug dealer identified only as V. Zh. and arrested in the May 2018 raid of Gallery nightclub to eight years in prison for the sale, purchase and distribution of drugs in large quantities.
Georgian law enforcers have seized up to 10 kg heroin this year, the Georgian Interior Ministry says.
Officers of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Police Department of Georgia’s Interior Ministry have arrested one person, identified only as N.Dz., for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs as well as their transportation to Georgia.
The US Department of State says in its 2019 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report that Georgia should take steps to supervise its gaming industry.The report reads that there are 416 lotteries and gaming institutions registered in Georgia and 31 casinos.
The ministry says that so-called ‘drug-shops’ were set up on Telegram messenger and internet platform Matanga, through which the drug dealers would connect with their clients and agree upon drop spots.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained seven individuals for online drug trafficking, four are a family of a mother, father and two children.
Six individuals have been detained for drug trafficking by the Georgian Interior Ministry over the past several days, the ministry reports.
A minor has been detained for illegal purchase and storage of large quantities of drugs, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A bill has been registered in the Georgian parliament to define small and large quantities of several drugs in order to avoid unjust prison sentences.