Arsen Avakov: Kiev police exposed the largest network of Internet drug trafficking in Ukraine
Law enforcers of the Kiev police exposed the largest network of Internet drug trafficking in Ukraine and a laboratory where up to 100 kg of psychotropic substances were produced every month. Nine members of an organized crime group were detained. This was announced today, March 2, by the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov.
According to him, law enforcement officers seized about 300 kg of narcotic substances and more than 2 tons of precursors worth 110 million UAH.
It was found that the attackers set up sales through online stores that operated on online ad platforms and messengers under various abbreviations.
Police officers conducted “investigative experiments” that made it possible to establish drug movement routes, as well as carried out 7 contactless wholesale purchases of drugs and carried out 40 interregional controlled deliveries of wholesale batches of psychotropics. It was found that every month the capacity of the drug laboratory allowed the defendants to produce from 80 to 100 kilograms of psychotropic substances.
Law enforcement officers conducted 20 searches, as a result of which they found a powerful drug laboratory, several warehouses, and also detained 9 active participants. The main organizer is a resident of Kiev, who the day before tried to leave the territory of our state, according to assumptions - to organize a network of drug sales outside Ukraine. Other members of the group are residents of Chernihiv, Kyiv and Kyiv region. The interregional grouping included people of different ages, in particular among the detainees there is a family.
During the authorized searches of the premises of the offenders, police officers discovered and seized special equipment for the mass production of drugs and a large amount of prohibited substances. Also seized were computer equipment, gadgets, bank cards, seven premium cars used by members of the criminal group, notes on the amount of drugs sold and records of the trafficker in bank accounts of funds received from the drug business.
Nine people were detained under the order of Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, they were informed of suspicion of committing criminal offenses provided for in Part 2 and Part 3 of Art. 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, purchase or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances committed by an organized group) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for up to 12 years with confiscation of property.
The large-scale special operation was carried out by the Kiev police under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv with the participation of employees of the Department for Combating Drug Crime of the National Police of Ukraine.
At the moment, the investigators have agreed with the procedural leaders a petition to elect the detainees measures of precautionary measure.
Also, operational and search measures continue to detain other members of the criminal group.
Recall that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is initiating changes to the legislation in the fight against drug crime. In particular, it is planned to introduce responsibility for advertising drugs, introduce mandatory detention and detention of drug distributors, recognize that people who use drugs and do not distribute them are not crimes The sick and the sick. And also to send drug addicts to mandatory treatment.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
