Investigators and operatives of the capital's police, with the support of special forces and with the participation of forensic experts, conducted a large-scale multi-stage special operation. As a result of simultaneous searches in Kyiv, Kyiv region and Dnipro, an interregional organized crime group specializing in the wholesale and retail sale of cocaine was liquidated.
Everyone 13 people involved in the case have been detained, the court has already chosen the most severe preventive measure for them - detention without bail.
Conspiracy and logistics: how drug trafficking worked
The criminals have built a stable and clearly structured supply and distribution channel for the elite drug.
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Digital network: Order acceptance, payment, and logistics coordination took place through a strictly confidential chat in an encrypted messenger.
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Sales methods: Customers received the goods either through addressed courier delivery or during a personal meeting on the "hand-to-hand" principle.
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Safety precautions: The suspects minimized contact with each other, constantly changing rented apartments, residential addresses, and daily routes. The dealers regularly changed vehicles to transport cocaine shipments.
Results of final searches and detention
During the final stage of the special operation, law enforcement officers detained 13 people. Among them: 22-year-old leader and organizer of the scheme (resident of Kyiv), as well as packaging technologists, chat operators, and full-time couriers.
During authorized searches of the residences and cars of the detainees, the following was discovered and seized:
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Over 600 ready-to-sell doses of cocaine (at "black market" prices, the cost of the batch is about 2,5 million hryvnias);
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Large amounts of cash in different currencies;
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Mobile phones with evidence of drug trafficking, encrypted terminals, electronic scales and professional packaging equipment;
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13 cars, which drug dealers used to provide logistics for the syndicate.
Legal Qualification and Liability
All detained members of the group have been officially charged with Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation, shipment or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues, committed by an organized group on a particularly large scale).
Certificate: The sanction of this article is one of the most severe in the category of property and drug crimes and provides for punishment in the form of from 9 to 12 years imprisonment with complete confiscation of all property.
A pre-trial investigation is currently underway. Police are identifying the sources of cocaine supply to Ukraine and checking the detainees for involvement in other smuggling channels.
Recall that earlier in the Kyiv region, law enforcement officers liquidated another dangerous gang. Then, one of the prisoners directly from the pre-trial detention center (SIZO) coordinated his accomplices at large via mobile communication to establish a methadone supply channel to the closed territory of the institution.
