Delivering drugs in Kyiv: Kyiv police expose a group of drug dealers

Delivering drugs in Kyiv: Kyiv police expose a group of drug dealers

Kyiv  •  UNN

November 24 2023, 05:03 PM  •  28427 views

Kyiv police detained a group of five people involved in drug trafficking, including an organizer and four couriers. The suspects, who have previously been prosecuted for drug crimes, face 9 to 12 years in prison.

Kyiv police detained an organized group of drug dealers, which included five people, including the organizer and four couriers who delivered drugs to customers in the capital. This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine, according to UNN

Details 

During the pre-trial investigation, we found that five people who had previously been prosecuted for drug crimes were involved in the drug business. They were local residents born in 1989, 1993, 2001 and 2002. The leader of the group, who organized the drug business and involved other people, was a 21-year-old Kyiv resident, while the other four acted as so-called couriers who delivered drugs to customers throughout the capital 

 - summarized Bohdan Vlasiuk, deputy head of the Kyiv police department for investigating particularly serious crimes.

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It is noted that all  were notified of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - illegal production, manufacture, purchase, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues.

The issue of imposing a measure of restraint in the form of detention on the suspects is currently being decided. The offenders face imprisonment for a term of nine to twelve years with confiscation of property. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing

- the National Police added.

Addendum 

48 searches were conducted at the suspects' residences, during which cocaine, cannabis, MDMA pills, more than 8,000 pills of unknown origin, mobile phones, laptops, 4 cars, as well as money in the amount of 6,200 US dollars, 1,020 euros and 1,300 hryvnias, which the offenders received as a result of criminal activity, were seized.

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