Police detained 11 for online drug trafficking, 4 online drug stores were closed in first 4 months of 2021
From June 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021 a total of 84 drug dealers were charged for drug crimes throughout the country. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgian law enforcers detained 11 individuals for online drug trafficking and closed four online drugstores in the first four months of 2021, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said in his annual report to parliament today.
The report covers the period from June 2020 to May 2021 and states that Georgia has become more focused on identifying drug dealers.
From June 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021 a total of 84 drug dealers were charged for drug crimes throughout the country.
Police seized 89 kilograms of heroin, 1 kilogram of cocaine, 6.5 kilograms of new psychoactive substances, 7,000 pills of Subutex and Suboxone in 2020, while 3,400 pills of Subutex/Suboxone, 7 kilograms of Heroin, 2 kilograms of Alpha PVP, and 2 kilograms of new psychoactive substances were seized in the first four months of 2021.
Georgian law enforcers have detained four drug dealers in Ponichala district in Tbilisi and in Gardabani, Georgia’s eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has burnt drugs worth nine million GEL ( three million dollars),seized in the investigation of 676 cases.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained seven individuals for online drug trafficking, four are a family of a mother, father and two children.
A 26-year-old woman and 23-year-old man have been charged with distribution of narcotics online. A 26-year-old woman and 23-year-old man have been charged with distribution of narcotics online.
A foreign citizen, identified as R.V. and born in 1988, was detained for drug crime in Tbilisi yesterday. The Georgian Interior Ministry has reported that R.V. was involved in the scheme of online drug sale.