Law enforcement officers detained a criminal organization for distributing amphetamine in Kropyvnytskyi
Employees of internal security, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police together with the police of Kirovograd region stopped the activities of the drug syndicate operating in the city. Garlic groups sold drugs in large quantities. Law enforcement officers conducted sanctioned searches and detained members of the group.
At the beginning of 2021, the operatives of the Kirovograd department of the Department of Internal Security of the NPU received information about the supervision of a criminal group in Kropyvnytskyi, which deals with the sale of psychotropic substances and narcotic drugs. According to this fact, the investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the NPU entered the information into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations under Part 3 of Article 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
It was established that the organizer of the group is a 55-year-old resident of Kropyvnytskyi, who in the past was repeatedly brought to administrative and criminal responsibility. The man provided the supply of drugs in large batches to the 46-year-old co-organizer and received income from the sale of the goods.
Directly, the co-organizer involved his family in the criminal business, which helped him pack and distribute drugs among dealers, collect sales funds and transfer them to the “boss”, as well as provide dealers with transportation, mobile communication, premises for drug sales and wages. The dealers — two men and a woman — distributed to drug-addicted residents of Kropyvnytskyi retail goods — daily 50-70 “checks” or cones.
Law enforcement officers conducted operational purchases from intruders. By the joint actions of internal security officers, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and the Kirovohrad Police, under the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, a special operation was carried out and the activities of the criminal organization were stopped. During the sanctioned searches, amphetamine and precursors for its manufacture, “rough” accounting, 240,000 hryvnias, bank cards, 6 cars, mobile phones were found and seized.
Police investigators reported the suspicion of six drug gang members, including the organizer of Art. 255 (Creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it) and Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. In the procedural order, the defendants were detained and placed in a temporary detention facility. If proven guilty, offenders face imprisonment for up to 12 years.
Further investigative actions continue, as well as the possible involvement of law enforcement officers in the activities of the drug syndicate.
Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine
