The Georgian Ministry of Inside Affairs (MIA) arrested 77 people for drug-related crimes, together with 23 drug sellers. These detainees are residents of Georgia, Iran, Turkey, Russia, India and Nigeria, mentioned the Director of the Central Felony Police Division, Teimuraz Kupatadze, on the briefing.
“On account of a posh investigation carried out by the workers of the Central Felony Police Division of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, transnational organized crime was uncovered.
Particularly, as much as 52 kilograms of “cocaine” drug secretly positioned in a sea container loaded with bananas, which was being transported from Ecuador to Europe by way of Georgia, was seized.
Within the talked about felony case, operational and investigative actions are in progress to establish and arrest members of the organized felony group concerned within the talked about drug trafficking,” he mentioned.
In response to Teimuraz Kupatadze, regulation enforcers seized and neutralized one of many massive Web drug sale shops, supplying greater than 50 per cent of the so-called black market.
“Now arrested citizen of Georgia born in 1963 managed the shop that was promoting massive quantities of narcotic medication by inserting technique.
Twenty-seven thousand items of narcotic drug “Ecstasy” capsules, with a complete weight of 12 (twelve) kilograms, and 10 (ten) kilograms of narcotic drug “Mdma” had been seized,” he mentioned.
Teimuraz Kupatadze added that a big and particularly great amount of narcotics and psychotropic medication had been seized as proof from the places indicated by the detainees, in addition to through the search of the detainees’ residential locations and their automobiles.
The MIA additionally seized money allegedly obtained from drug gross sales.
The investigation is being carried out underneath Articles 260 and 262 of the Felony Code of Georgia. The arrested people resist 20 years in jail or life imprisonment.
