Prosecutors of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office together with the SBU Office in the region, according to a court decision, destroyed the material evidence.
The drug in question was previously seized heroin with a total weight of over 1 ton. Its value at black market prices at the time of detection amounted to more than UAH 2.3 billion.
Preliminarily, under the public prosecution of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, four Turkish citizens were found guilty of smuggling the drug in particularly large amounts (Part 3 of Article 305, Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). In particular, from Pakistan, in transit through Ukraine, to the countries of the European Union.
The cargo of drugs weighing over 1 ton was delivered to the seaport of Odesa region. Later, to ensure unimpeded border crossing, the disguised “goods” in rice bags were transported to Lviv, where the criminal activity was stopped.
The Information Policy Department of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office 
