Three criminal cases have been opened on the fact of growing a dangerous “crop”. “Drug lords” face serious punishment.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 25, 2021 – Reports
The press service of the GUNP in the Zaporizhzhia region reports on the results of measures to counter the creation and distribution of narcotic drugs.
Police officers found and destroyed illegal cannabis crops in Zaporizhzhia, Berdyansk, and Pologovskiy districts.
Thus, in the private sector of the Shevchenkivskyi district of Zaporizhzhia, an authorized search of the house and the adjacent territory was carried out on Musorgsky street. The police found and seized 51 hemp bushes with clear signs of cultivation. As the 50-year-old owner of the plantation explained, he was engaged in cultivation for personal needs.
For such plant growing, the offender can receive a punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of three to seven years.
In Berdyansk, district police officers received information about the illegal sowing of cannabis on the territory of a local resident’s home in 1966. At the scene, the police found more than 30 bushes of a plant similar to hemp. They were sent for examination.
Also, as part of an investigation of a previously open criminal proceeding, the police conducted investigative and operational actions and an authorized search of a resident of the village of Malaya Tokmachka. A man born in 1982 was found on the territory of his homeownership of a plot on which 40 bushes of a plant of the hemp genus grew. The sowing showed signs of cultivation. Law enforcers destroyed the plantings and sent the plants for examination.
On these facts, criminal proceedings were also initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 310 (Sowing or growing sleeping poppy or hemp). For illegal sowing of cannabis, the defendants face punishment in the form of a fine from one hundred to five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or arrest for up to six months, or restriction of freedom for up to three years.
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Source: Ukrgate