Man detained at Tbilisi airport for smuggling in 508 pills of subutex
The detainee attempted to smuggle in drugs from Turkey to Georgia, the Georgian Interior Ministry reports.
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Georgian police have detained an individual at Tbilisi International Airport earlier today for smuggling in 508 pills of subutex and three pills of methadone from Turkey.
The video has been released by Georgian Interior Ministry.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has not identified the detainee, only saying that he has a previous criminal record and has admitted to the crime.
The offence is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison.
Six drug traffickers have been detained in Tbilisi, in Ponichala district this month, with large quantity of drugs confiscated, the Georgian Interior Ministry has reported earlier today.
Police have detained one Georgian individual and five foreign citizens for illegal drug manufacturing, purchase, possession and sale today.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of 65 pills of Suboxone in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo. The crime is punishable by eight to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
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.
Police have detained three Georgian citizens for the purchase and possession of over 22 gr of heroin and 50 pills of methadone in the Georgian Black Sea region of Adjara. Police have seized illegal firearms and ammunition in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi as well.
The Anti-corruption agency of the State Security Service of Georgia has detained three people including the Head of the Land Management Service of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Division of Adjara for taking large bribes and two others for helping to secure the bribes.
Georgian law enforcers have detained three Ukrainian citizens for the purchase, possession and sale of drugs. 779 pills of Subutex have been confiscated from the apartments of the detainees in Tbilisi.
Law enforcers have detained one individual in Tetritskaro municipality, Kvemo Kartli region for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs, and seized a large quantity of drugs from the detainee’s car, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Georgian law enforcers of the MIA Central Criminal Police Department have detained three drug dealers in the Ponichala district in Tbilisi today.