Armenia`s law-enforcers prevent import of 12kg of drugs to Armenia

ArmInfo.  The employees of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia have uncovered a case of import of the narcotic drug weighing about 12 kg into the Republic of Armenia.

According to the SRC, during the customs inspection of a truck with a  trailer driven by citizen N.A., who arrived from the Islamic Republic  of Iran, suspicious masses were found at the Agarak checkpoint using  X- ray equipment. In particular, 15 packages with a white crystalline  mass resembling the drug .

As part of the criminal case initiated by the Syunik Regional  Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the  Republic of Armenia, citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran N.A. was  arrested. The investigation established that the citizen was supposed  to hand over the aforementioned narcotic drug to a  certain E.N. on the territory of the Republic of Armenia.

As part of the operational search activities, the methamphetamine  group narcotic substances were replaced with other similar masses and  treated with a special chemical substance, and the identity of the  person who arrived from Iran was established. After arriving in the  Republic of Armenia, citizen E.N. was placed under surveillance.

The latter arrived at the international airport and went  to meet with N.A. In one of the hotels located in Yerevan, under the  supervision of operational officers, packages with a counterfeit mass  of the narcotic substance were handed over to  citizen E.N. The latter was detained by the State Revenue Committee  and the National Security Service on the basis of immediate  reasonable suspicion of smuggling and purchasing drugs for the  purpose of sale and transferred to the Investigative Committee of the  Republic of Armenia.

As part of the criminal case, petitions were filed with the court to  select a preventive measure in the form of detention of Iranian  citizens N.A. and E.N., which were satisfied.