As a result of joint operational measures and investigative actions, officers of the Main Division for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking under the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Customs Department of the Revenue Service under the Ministry of Finance arrested a citizen of the Republic of Ukraine, K.S., born in 1994, on charges of illegally purchasing and storing a particularly large amount of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and illegal smuggling to Georgia.
The committed crime envisions up to 20 years or life imprisonment.
Law enforcement officers, as a result of checking the defendant's luggage at Tbilisi International Airport, detected up to 2 kilograms of a substance hidden in confectionery packages, containing a particularly large amount of narcotic drugs: "Methadone", "MDMA", as well as the psychotropic substance "Ketamine".
The investigation is underway under Articles 260, 261, 262 and 263 of the Criminal Code of Georgia.
