Law enforcement officers in Transcarpathia uncovered a cocaine distribution scheme, in which the criminals disguised the drugs as washing powder and sent them to “customers” by mail, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
“According to the investigation, a 27-year-old resident of Zakarpattia organized a channel for supplying drugs to Ukraine and recruited accomplices to help him,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Thursday.
The agency notes that the accomplices helped store the goods in a warehouse, pack them into bags, and prepare them for sale.
“Cocaine disguised as washing powder was sent to their ‘customers’ by mail to various regions of Ukraine, in particular to Kyiv,” the prosecutor’s office said.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the sale of six pressed briquettes of cocaine, weighing about 1 kg each, has been documented. The approximate value of this on the “black market” reaches hundreds of thousands of US dollars.
“During an attempt to sell another batch of narcotics, law enforcement officers exposed one of the members of the criminal group, and another in his own home in Uzhgorod,” the agency said.
As a result of searches in the apartments, warehouses, and vehicles of the aforementioned individuals, narcotic and psychotropic substances were seized: cocaine, methamphetamine, mephedrone, as well as computer equipment, mobile phones, packaging materials, postal receipts, cash, and draft documentation.
Under the procedural guidance of the Transcarpathian Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the field of defense of the Western region, they were notified of suspicion of illegal storage, shipment, and sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, or their analogues on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Pre-trial investigation – USBU in Zakarpattia region based on materials from USBU in Zakarpattia region and USR in Zakarpattia region DSR NPU.
