The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has charged 11 individuals, including foreign citizens, with facilitating the illegal purchase, storage and sale of a particularly large amount of narcotics.

An investigation conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed that the defendants illegally purchased and stored a particularly large amount of the narcotic drugs “Methadone”, “Subocaine”, “Tetrahydrocannabinol”, “Pregabalin”, “Ketamine”, “Hashish”, “Marijuana” and the plant “Cannabis” for the purpose of facilitating their sale.

As a result of the measures taken, the employees of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seized the aforementioned narcotics. Also, within the framework of the investigative experiment, narcotics located at various locations were seized, and items necessary for packaging narcotics were seized from the defendants' residential buildings.

The detainees were charged under Article 260, Part 3, Subparagraph “a” (illegal purchase and storage of narcotic drugs in an especially large amount), Article 260, Part 6, Subparagraph “a” (facilitation of the illegal sale of narcotic drugs in an especially large amount), Article 261, Part 2, Subparagraph “a” (illegal purchase and storage of psychotropic substances in an especially large amount), and Article 265, Part 3, Subparagraph “a” (illegal planting and growing of plants containing narcotic drugs in an especially large amount) of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which provides for a sentence of up to 20 years or life imprisonment.

Based on the prosecutor's motion, the court sentenced the defendants to imprisonment as a preventive measure.