The criminal, who created an Internet store for the sale of narcotic substances and sold the “goods” through “bookmarks” on the territory of the city, faces a penalty of up to ten years in prison.
On July 23, during work, the employees of the Department for Combating Narcotic Crime in the Lviv region, together with the investigators of the Police Department No. 2 of the Lviv District Police Department No. 2 on Zelenia Street in Lviv, seized a plastic bag with the narcotic drug “cannabis” weighing about 50 kg from a 28-year-old man from Lviv grams
In addition, during the authorized search of the house of the intruder, law enforcement officers found paper rolls with a substance of plant origin, outwardly similar to “cannabis”, weighing about 20 grams, bushes of plants of elite varieties of hemp and equipment for their cultivation, electronic scales, as well as other physical evidence . Everything removed is directed to expert research.
The perpetrator was detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. Soon the court will choose a preventive measure for him.
According to the fact, the investigators of the territorial division of the police, under the procedural leadership of the Frankiv 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 sanction of the article provides for punishment – deprivation of liberty for a term of six to ten years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police