At “black market” prices, the estimated cost of the detected prohibited substances exceeds 785 million hryvnia.
In 2023, the National Police of Ukraine seized narcotic substances.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In particular, law enforcement officers seized:
- 1.8 tons of cannabis.
- Almost 800 kg of poppy straw.
- About 5 kg of cocaine and 10 kg of methadone.
- 226 kg of Alpha-PVP salts.
- 64 kg of amphetamine and 10 kg of MDMA.
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At “black market” prices, the estimated cost of the detected prohibited substances exceeds 785 million hryvnia.
In addition , police sent indictments to court as part of 32 thousand criminal proceedings.
- In the Zaporozhye region, a group of drug dealers was exposed and a shipment of drugs worth 55 million hryvnia was seized.
- Since the beginning of a full-scale During the war, the SBU neutralized more than 60 criminal groups that planned to turn Ukraine into a drug transit country to the EU. Almost 2 billion hryvnia worth of prohibited goods were seized from the criminals.
- The national police exposed a criminal organization that was selling narcotic substances within three regions of Ukraine. In their activities they earned up to 135 million hryvnia per year. Law enforcement officers blocked the drug trafficking channel.