Persons, who had Smuggled Narcotic drugs in Particularly Large Amount to Armenia, Detained
In the result of large-scale procedural and evidentiary actions conducted in the course of preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding investigated in General Department for Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the RA Investigative Committee of the RA Investigative Committee, it was found out that three RA citizens, one of whom had been previously sentenced to life imprisonment and released on parole, with other people in a foreign country, with the intent to sell, smuggled narcotic drugs of “Methamphetamine” and “Marijuana” type in particularly large amount, after which they were arrested by the police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Public criminal prosecution was initiated against the three citizens according to the Point 2 of the Part 3 of the Article 393 and the Point 2 of the Part 3 of the Article 399 of RA Criminal Code.
Detention was applied as a pretrial measure against them.
Preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding is ongoing.
