Armenian law-enforcers prevent drugg smuggling across  Armenian-Georgian border 

ArmInfo. Law enforcement agencies of Armenia have stopped the smuggling of drugs into the country.

According to the press service of the State Revenue Committee (SRC)  of the Republic of Armenia, the National Security Service received  information that a citizen was preparing to smuggle drugs into the  Republic of Armenia. This information was forwarded to the SRC  Anti-Smuggling Department. The employees of the NSS and the SRC  jointly carried out the relevant operational and investigative  measures.

It turned out that the citizen of the Republic of Armenia G.T.  intended to import various types of drugs into the Republic of  Armenia through the Bagratashen checkpoint. As a result, the citizen  was placed under surveillance. A few days later, the said citizen  arrived in a passenger car. The SRC employees conducted a customs  inspection of the vehicle. About 900 tablets containing the drug  buprenorphine, 340 grams of cocaine and 50 grams of hashish were  found in the cache.

It was established that, in addition to the RA citizen, citizens of  Georgia arrived in Armenia from Georgia by the said vehicle. Due to  reasonable suspicions of drug smuggling, two RA citizens and two  Georgian citizens were detained and taken to the Investigative  Committee.

Operational investigative measures are ongoing to identify other  persons possibly involved in the illegal trafficking of the  above-mentioned drugs, as well as to detect packages of drugs already  placed in various areas of Yerevan.