368kg heroin seized in int’l operation with Georgia’s involvement
Two members of the organized group were arrested in Ukraine last week. Photo:Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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368 kilograms of heroin worth $24 million has been seized on the territory of Ukraine in an eight-month international operation with the involvement of Georgian, Armenian and Ukrainian law enforcers, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported earlier today.
Drug traffickers attempted to transport heroin from Iran to Ukraine via Georgia and Armenia to later sell it in central Europe.
The drugs were hidden in transit cargo.
Two members of the organized group, who are Turkish nationals, were arrested in Ukraine on July 22, said the ministry.
The crime is punishable by 12 years in prison in Ukraine.
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.Georgia
Georgian police have detained an Azerbaijani citizen for drug possession, who intended to import a large amount of methadone in Georgia from Azerbaijan.
Police have detained one individual with a previous conviction for the illegal purchase and possession of drugs in especially large quantities, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition in the Adjara region.
Police have detained two Bulgarian citizens for the purchase and possession of 40kg of heroin in the Black Sea region of Adjara. The Bulgarians had smuggled ‘an especially large quantity of drugs’ with the intention of selling them in Europe.