Police arrest Kazakh citizen for drug production, distribution, seize 1.2 mln GEL in illicit narcotics

The Central Criminal Police Department has identified a group of drug dealers selling narcotics online and arrested one Kazakh citizen identified as A.A.

The detainee belonged to a group of drug dealers who sold drugs on the internet and made the drug mephedrone.

A.A. in his temporary home used a laboratory inventory of various chemicals to produce the drug mephedrone and then sell it online,” says the announcement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Police have seized 2.3 kilograms of mephedrone while searching the home of the detainee. The cost of the confiscated drugs would be about 1.2 mln GEL on the black market.

The crime is punishable from six to 11 years in prison.