Police detain foreign citizen, seize 0.5 kg drugs
The detainee, who had illegally purchased the drugs, was involved in online drug sale. Photo: Shot from the interior ministry video
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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.
The interior ministry has released a video footage of the detention:
Reportedly, he was leaving the illegally purchased alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (Alpha-PVP) for buyers on different locations in Nadzaladevi district.
Law enforcers have found over 0.5 kg of the drugs in his apartment.
Police have arrested 20 drug dealers in various cities of Georgia such as Tbilisi - Ponichala district, Rustavi, Batumi, Kutaisi and Bolnisi municipality in Georgia's eastern Kvemo Kartli region today. The police said that the detainees ‘were systematically selling drugs to citizens.’
Georgian law enforcers have detained four drug traffickers over the past several days and confiscated 5.5 kg of drugs and more than 10 liters of a new psychoactive substance.
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 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.
Police have arrested a 34-year-old foreign citizen for selling drugs online in Tbilisi earlier today. The Interior Ministry reports that the man was arrested when he intended to deliver methadone-containing drugs for further sale to various spots in Nadzaladevi district.