In Vinnytsia region, police detained an organized criminal group that established a drug supply channel to places of imprisonment
On March 31, during the special operation, investigators and detectives of the regional police chief together with the employees of the Strategic Investigation Department with the force support of the KORD special unit fighters detained four defendants who were part of a group with interregional ties. The police seized packages of methadone and cannabis from the repeatedly convicted offenders.
According to the Deputy Head of the Investigative Department of the GUNP in Vinnytsia Oblast Oleksandr Bilyi, during the operational development carried out jointly with the Office of Strategic Investigations and employees of the Interregional Department for Criminal Punishment of the Ministry of Justice, near the city. Ladyzhin police detained a car in which four offenders aged 37 to 50 were traveling, suspected of organizing the functioning of a channel for the supply of drugs, psychotropics and other prohibited items from Zaporizhia to convicts. Detainees — residents of the city. Zaporizhia and Zhytomyr region, previously convicted of property and drug crimes.
During the arrest in the car of the attackers, the police seized about a kilogram of narcotic substances of plant and synthetic origin, as well as 23 mobile phones with chargers.
The removed is sent for examination.
The investigation initiated criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Art. 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues without). For such an offense, up to 10 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property is provided.
The offenders are detained in procedural order and are in a temporary detention facility. The issue of notifying them of suspicion and choosing a precautionary measure in the form of detention is resolved.
Police communication department in Vinnytsia region
