In Lviv region, police stopped the activity of a criminal group, whose members were supplying drugs to a correctional facility
The offenders – three men: two aged 34, one aged 38 and a 58-year-old woman (all residents of Stryi) – set up a channel for the supply of drugs, psychotropic substances and drug-containing pills to the penitentiary and their sale to convicts.
The members of the criminal group were exposed by investigators of the Serious Crimes Investigation Department (detectives) of the Lviv Police Investigation Department jointly with operatives of the SBU Office in Lviv region and operatives of the correctional facility, under the procedural supervision of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The offenders, one of whom is serving a sentence in a penal institution, had clearly defined roles and responsibilities, “worked” in a coordinated manner, observing the rules of secrecy. The convict’s mother was engaged in packing the “parcels”, two men acted as couriers, and the convict himself was engaged in the distribution of prohibited substances to “clients” on the territory of the colony.
Law enforcement officers documented several facts of supply and sale of cannabis, amphetamine and Subutex pills, and on 6 November the mother of the convicted distributor and one of the couriers were detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine during the next “delivery” of prohibited substances to the colony.
Authorised searches were conducted at the residences of the group members and on the territory of the penal institution, during which the following items were found and seized: drug-containing pills, narcotic and psychotropic substances, packaging equipment, draft records, and other material evidence. All the seized items were sent for expert examination to the Research Forensic Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Lviv region.
The group members were served a notice of suspicion of committing a crime stipulated by Part 2 Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, transfer or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues). The maximum penalty under the article is imprisonment for up to ten years with confiscation of property.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, the issue of choosing a measure of restraint is being decided.
Lviv regional police communication department