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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced it had conducted a joint operation with the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent cocaine smuggling from South America to Europe; it had seized 330 kilograms of cocaine, mostly in the Moscow …
Russian police officers have discovered a large drug supply route from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Russian Far East. Drug traffickers used to hide prohibited substances in household appliances heading to the region by trains. Criminal …
Georgian police have detained two Bulgarian citizens for the purchase and possession of 40kg of heroin in Batumi. Director of the Central Criminal Department Mamuka Chelidze said that the Bulgarians had smuggled ‘an …
FSB officers identified and thwarted the activities of a large laboratory for the production of synthetic drugs in Simferopol, the press service of the Crimean department informed. According to the FSB, the laboratory was located in one …
Georgian police officers have detained one individual for drug offences in the Georgian town of Poti, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported. Law enforcers have seized 26 packs of methadone and five packs of cocaine as a …
Six drug traffickers have been detained in Ponichala district of Tbilisi this month, with large quantity of drugs confiscated, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported today. The ministry says that since January 1, 2019 they have …
A large batch of methadone, a drug banned in Russia, worth more than 5.8 bln rubles ($93 mln) was seized by customs officers at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, the Federal Customs Service said. "A large batch of undeclared …
Employees seized a record 1.7 tons of drugs at the cargo terminal at Istanbul Airport, News.am reported citing TRT Haber. This is a new-generation drug called "kratom." Turkish police have come across it the first time, an in …
According to Georgian media, monk Svimon Kavtaradze, accused of possession of 15.5 g methadone, was sent to prison in Zugdidi. Kavtaradze’s lawyer tried to release his ward on bail, as he fully pleaded guilty, but the court took …
A monk has been detained in Zugdidi, Georgia’s Samegrelo region, for possession of drugs, the Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. According to the IPN news agency, the monk was detained yesterday, while another individual …
New smuggling routes mean that Europe is now a transit area for the export of cocaine
On the border between Georgia and Russia at the Kazbegi / Upper Lars checkpoint, Georgian customs officers found hashish and cocaine in a bus with the Armenian number plate heading to Armenia, the Georgian Finance Ministry’s Revenue Service …
Georgian police have detained two foreign nationals for the possession of 1,557 pills of ecstasy, according to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. "1,200 pills of the drugs were confiscated from M.B., while A.J. had …
The Georgian Interior Ministry has destroyed narcotic and psychotropic drugs worth 9 million GEL ($3 million), confiscated during the investigation of 765 different cases around the country, the ministry reported. The drugs which …
Georgian police have detained six people for the purchase and possession of drugs today, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. Director of the Central Criminal Department Mamuka Chelidze said that one …
Border protection and patrolling are hindered by the landscape and occupation of a part of Azerbaijani territory
Turkish security forces confiscated nearly 5.5 million cannabis roots in an anti-drug operation, officials said. The Diyarbakir Governorship said that the local gendarmerie commando units carried out the operation in 72 different …
A drug trafficker has been detained at the Armenian-Iranian border by Russian border guards, according to Armenia's Federal Security Service’s press service. A white crystal-like substance in a plastic bag, presumably …
Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained seven individuals for online drug trafficking, four are a family of a mother, father and two children. "The detainees were selling drugs via the shop named MEGASHOP, …
The Rustavi City Court has sentenced two citizens of Iran to 16 years in jail for the smuggling and possession of narcotics in especially large quantities into Georgia. The investigation established that the detainees illegally …
