Large drug bust sees 28 arrested, 1 kg of various narcotics seized

Georgian police have detained 20 drug dealers and eight other individuals for the illegal purchase and possession of a total of over one kg of heroin and 129 pills of Subutex in the Ponichala district outskirts of Tbilisi.

The investigation established that the detained drug dealers were selling drugs on a regular basis.Following the relevant court ruling, the law enforcers repeatedly carried out the so-called “control purchases” of "Heroin" and "Alpha-PVP" drugs from the defendants and recorded the process”, the interior ministry announced yesterday.

It also said that the law enforcers of its Central Criminal Police Department and Special Tasks Department in cooperation with the General Prosecutor’s Office carried out a ‘complex operative and investigative activities’. 

The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.