Kyiv law enforcement officers detained drug traffickers with “goods” worth about 11 million hryvnias
All three defendants were reported on suspicion of committing a crime. They face up to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.
During the investigative actions, the officers of the Dnieper Police Department together with the employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, under the procedural guidance of the Dnieper District Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kiev, detained a group of persons for the sale of drugs in the city of Kiev and Odessa. Investigators conducted authorized searches of the places of residence of the offenders and in the car they used.
According to the acting head of the Dnieper police department Leonid Kuryata, detained under Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine - a 46-year-old Kiev resident, a 33-year-old and a 22-year-old from Odessa are previously unconvicted:
“We conducted three sanctioned searches of the premises and in the car of the defendants, where we found and seized 14 plastic bags with a substance similar to cocaine, 2 bags of white and green substances, 24 bags of yellow, blue, pink and brown pills color. At the prices of the “black” market, the value of the withdrawn is about 11 million hryvnias. All prohibited substances were sent for appropriate examinations.”
Under the procedural guidance of the Dnieper District Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kiev, the investigators reported the suspicion of three defendants in committing the crime provided for in Part 3 of Art. 307 (Illegal acquisition, storage for the purpose of sale and sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances in particularly large quantities by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. For two Odessa residents, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention, a Kyiv resident - round-the-clock house arrest. For their actions, they are threatened with up to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.
Kyiv Police Communications Department
