Ukrainian was severely punished for drug smuggling to Crimea
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea sentenced a Ukrainian citizen who tried to smuggle a large batch of drugs into the peninsula to seven and a half years in prison.
This was reported by the press service of the FSB of the Russian Federation for Crimea and Sevastopol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the investigation, in 2019, at the Dzhankoy checkpoint, border guards detained a 60-year-old Ukrainian who was traveling from Genichesk. During the search, four packages of narcotic substances were found on his body.
To hide the drugs, he taped them to himself.
“According to the examination conclusion, the packages contained a narcotic drug – cannabis, the total weight of which exceeded 250 grams. A criminal case was initiated against the foreigner on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 3 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Attempted smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors, committed on a large scale”). The appeal panel of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea sentenced the man to imprisonment for a period of seven years and six months to be served in a maximum security colony,” the FSB said.
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