The officers of Main Division Combating Illegal Circulation of Drugs of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs along with the officers of Gldani-Nadzaladevi Main Division of Tbilisi Police Department as a result of jointly held operative-search and investigative activities detained G.P. (DoB: 1996) and L. M. (DoB: 2001) on the fact of illegal purchase, storage, sale and realization of new psychoactive substance by a group with preliminary agreement.
Committed crime envisages from 7 to 14 years of imprisonment.
The investigation established that the detainees planned to purchase a new psychoactive substance by mail and further sell it via the so-called "placing method". In order to commit the crime, a postal parcel arrived in Georgia. The parcel contained a loose mass containing a new psychoactive substance, which belongs to the class of cannabinoid chemicals of new psychoactive substances.
The detainees met with each other in order to organize the "placing" of drugs at the pre-selected locations and exactly at this moment they were detained as accused individuals by the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Investigation is in progress under the part 2, part 4, sub-clause “b” of the part 5 of Article the 18-260 and part 2 of the Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which means planning of purchase and sale of new psychoactive substance committed by a group with preliminary agreement and illegal purchase and storage of new psychoactive substance.
