The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia solved the transnational organized crime of drug dealers.

Agencies identified the leaders and members of the organized criminal group.

According to the investigation, group members were selling all kinds of narcotic drugs in different regions of Georgia.

The ways of legalizing a large amount of illegal income and taking money out of the country have also been uncovered.

The members were importing a large amount of drugs into Georgia, including Heroin, Cocaine, Buprenorphine, Methadone, Methamphetamine, Amphetamine, MDMA.

In 2021-2023, the drug buyers deposited a total of GEL 15,233,071, USD 2,577,004, EUR 10,210 into the Georgian bank accounts specially opened by the organized group.

The detainees - the citizens of Georgia, Bulgaria and Turkey among them - have been charged with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia [illegal purchase, storage, and possession of narcotic drugs by an organized group] and Article 194 of the Criminal Code [legalization of illegal income]. The crime envisages for up to 20 years or life imprisonment.