Jan - Jul ‘19: 77 charged with smuggling drugs into Georgia
920g. heroine and 101 pills of drug substance have been seized as evidence. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The Georgian Interior Ministry has charged 77 individuals of smuggling drugs into Georgia in between January and July 2019.
The Ministry reports that three were detained for attempting to smuggle drugs in Georgia several days ago.
One of the detainees was an Iranian national while the other two were Georgian citizens.
Police seized 920 grams of heroin and 101 pills of narcotic substances.
On July 31, Police reported the detention of six drug dealers and seized up to four kilograms of heroin and 20 kg of marijuana from two of them.
Six individuals have been detained for drug trafficking by the Georgian Interior Ministry over the past several days, the ministry reports.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has uncovered an online drug trafficking scheme and detained three drug dealers who are the citizens of Russia, announces the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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.
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.
Georgian police have detained an Azerbaijani national identified only as G.H. (b. 1991) for illegal possession of drugs in large quantities on July 30. Patrol police officers ordered G.H. to stop his car in order to carry out a check on July 30 in Rustavi, after which he got out of the car and attempted to escape but police arrested him.
Police have detained a Turkish citizen for drug dealing in the Georgian seaside town of Batumi yesterday. The individual only identified as E.I., born in 1987, was selling ecstasy.
Georgian police have detained two foreign nationals for the possession of 1,557 pills of ecstasy. The police have not released information pertaining to the the countries of origin of the detainees.
A monk has been detained in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region for possession of drugs, the Georgian Public Broadcaster reports.
Turkish border guards have detained Azerbaijani citizen Ruslan Gurbanov for smuggling 5,450 water turtles into Turkey via Georgia, Turkish media outlets report.
Georgian police officers arrested a foreign citizen at the Batumi international airport, with the individual charged with illegal purchase, storage and smuggling of over 11 kilograms of marijuana, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.