Georgian police detain four for online drug trafficking
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Georgian law enforcers have detained four individuals for online drug trafficking.
One of the four detainees has been charged with the sale of drugs in especially large quantities which is punishable up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment, while three others have been charged with the attempted sale of drugs which is punishable up to 14 years in prison.
Police have confiscated methadone, bio, alpha-PVP and other drugs from the flats of the detainees.
In May 2020 the Georgian Interior Ministry proposed tougher punishment for the sale of drugs, as well as for psychotropic and psychoactive substances.
According to the bill the minimum punishment for the sale of drugs, psychotropic and psychoactive substances will amount to 6-10 years, while the sale of drugs in large quantities will be punishable by 12-17 years in prison.
The sale of drugs in especially large quantities will be punishable by 14-20 years in prison (instead of the current 8-20 years in prison) or life imprisonment.
Police have detained five individuals for the illegal purchase, possession and sale of a large amount of drugs in Kakheti today, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia (MIA).
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has destroyed narcotic and psychoactive substances worth 6.5 mln GEL ($2.3 mln/€2.1 mln) which were seized in 765 cases of drug deals, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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.
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 20-year-old man has been arrested for disposing of hundreds of plastic bottles in the Ktsia River in the Kvemo Kartli region. Footage of the man’s act was spread on social media earlier today.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has uncovered an online drug trafficking scheme and arrested five drug dealers in the country’s coastal Adjara region and capital Tbilisi, the Ministry said on Thursday.