In Lviv, police blocked drug traffic to correctional colony
Operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police carry out systematic and comprehensive work to neutralize the activities of criminal groups, in particular, in places of detention.
The activities of two such groups were stopped in Lviv region. Its participants set up drug traffic to the Lychakiv correctional colony. The first consisted of 7 people, the second - 4. Some of the defendants were serving sentences in the colony, the rest were at large. The leader of one of the groups has the status of a so-called “monitor” behind the body.
Each of the participants had its own functionality: the organizers controlled the activities of the “subordinates” and distributed the earnings, the members of the groups collected funds from the convicts for the purchase of drugs and were responsible for sales in the institution, bought, packaged and transferred the “goods”.
Also, the criminal groups included the so-called “correctors”. They corrected the actions of persons who actually transferred drugs over the fence to the institution.
Each week, group leaders received up to 150 drug-containing pills. Monthly profit from drug business amounted to 1.5 million UAH.
In turn, the operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations in the Lviv region, the investigators of the GUNP in the Lviv region together with the employees of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office and the department of the State Law Office “Lychakivska VK №30” conducted sanctioned searches of the places of detention and residence of the defendants.
11 members of the two groups were informed by the police of suspicion under Part 2 and 3 of Art. 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Two dealers were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine during an attempt to transfer another batch of goods to the colony. For two suspects, the court chose a precautionary measure in the form of detention with the right to deposit UAH 214 thousand, another — UAH 107 thousand bail.
The sanction of the article provides for punishment — imprisonment for a term from 9 to 12 years with confiscation of property.
National Police of Ukraine
