Georgian police detain 7 drug traffickers
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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 drug dealers have not been identified. However, the ministry press speaker stated that one is a Turkish citizen who has been pursued by Georgian law enforcers for three months.
The rest of the detainees are Georgians, only one with dual, Georgian-French citizenship.
If convicted, the individuals will be sent to prison for 8-20 years for the possession and sale of especially large amount of drugs.
The charge also envisages a life sentence.
The Interior Ministry stated that over the course of past four months they have seized:
- Up to 8 kg of heroin.
- More than 1 kg of cocaine.
- Up to 318 gr new psychoactive and psychotropic drug.
- Psychoactive drugs with Buprenorphine-3,456 pills.
- 1,5 kg synthetic drug MDMA.
- 650 gr of different psychoactive drugs
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The Georgian Interior Ministry announced the detention of a German citizen for the possession of a large quantity of drugs at his home in Tbilisi. The individual, identified only as L. A. reportedly kept 2,644 pills of "ecstasy”, 323 pills of "subutex” and 400gr of cocaine.
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.
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The Interior Ministry continues its "uncompromising fight” against drug trafficking in cooperation with the Prosecutors Office, reads the statement by the ministry.
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 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 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.