The perpetrator was exposed by operatives together with investigators and employees of other services of police department No. 1 of Lviv district police department No. 1.
The police documented the facts of a 30-year-old man from Lviv selling “methadone” to drug addicts in the city of Lviv, and on May 1, he was arrested in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine after another sale on Chornovola Avenue.
The law enforcement officers seized the drugs from the detainee and sent them for expert examination.
According to the fact, the investigators of the territorial division of the police, under the procedural leadership of the Galicia District Prosecutor’s Office, opened criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Article 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, forwarding or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum punishment provided by the sanction of the article is imprisonment for a term of up to ten years with confiscation of property.
The pre-trial investigation continues, law enforcement officers are establishing the channels of entry of the narcotic substance.
Soon, the court will choose a preventive measure for the detainee.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police