Police seize up to 80 kg of heroin from Iranian citizen in Poti
The investigation was conducted within the joint Container Control Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organisation. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgian police have detained an Iranian citizen for illegal purchase, possession and attempted smuggling of a large amount of drugs through western Georgia's port city of Poti, the Head of the Central Criminal Police Department said on Thursday.
Teimuraz Kupatadze said law enforcement had confiscated 315 packages of heroin, weighing in at 80 kilograms, following a search of the individual’s vehicle, with the items found in a concealed compartment.
He added the offender had intended to smuggle the drugs from Iran to Europe via Armenia and Georgia, and now faces up to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment.
The investigation was conducted within the joint Container Control Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organisation.
Kupatadze also said the Interior Ministry’s cooperation with partner states had resulted in a joint police operation last month with Belgian and Dutch colleagues, which seized one tonne and 660 kilograms of heroin.
Georgian police on Thursday said law enforcement officers had arrested 55 individuals on drug-related charges, including 37 for drug-dealing.
Georgian police have detained one individual in Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi for the possession and sale of heroin in large quantities with the use of social media and Internet applications.
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.’
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.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for the purchase and possession of 12 packs of heroin in the western Georgian region of Imereti. The Georgian Interior Ministry reported today that the individual, identified only as O.Ch., born in 1946, was found in possession of “especially large quantity of drugs”.
Georgian police on Thursday said law enforcement officers had arrested 52 individuals on drug-related charges, including 37 for drug-dealing, sale, purchase, possession and smuggling of drugs, in capital Tbilisi and other regions of the country.
Customs officers of the Georgian Revenue Service seized 9.3 kilograms of Ketamine from a Ukrainian citizen at the Tbilisi International Airport in Georgia’s capital, the body said on Wednesday.