The law enforcement officers found and seized from a 31-year-old man from Kharkiv, who temporarily lives in Lviv, zip-bags with a substance similar to the psychotropic drug “amphetamine”, narcotic and psychotropic pills, as well as a zip-bag with a substance of plant origin, outwardly similar to “psilocybin mushrooms”.
The perpetrator was exposed by the operatives of the Cybercrime Countermeasures Office in the Lviv Region together with the investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1, under the procedural guidance of the Galician District Prosecutor’s Office.
It was established that the suspect received narcotic and psychotropic drugs using Telegram chat and later intended to distribute them by making “bookmarks” on the territory of the city of Lviv.
The perpetrator was detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, substances were seized from him, as well as other material evidence was sent for expert examination.
Investigators of the territorial division of the police informed the detainee of suspicion of committing a criminal offense provided for in 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 sanction of the article provides for punishment – deprivation of liberty for a term of six to ten years with confiscation of property.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, and soon the court will choose a preventive measure for the suspect.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police
in Lviv, the police uncovered an intruder suspected of distributing a wide range of narcotic and psychotropic substances