The Kyiv District Court of Odessa found a 36-year-old resident of Odessa guilty of organizing a heroin smuggling channel from the Russian Federation to Ukraine.

A court hearing revealed that the channel's organizer had recruited an acquaintance who needed money to treat himself and his wife. In court, the courier admitted that he had previously traveled to Moscow 3-4 times a year to buy medicine for his sick wife and for himself. Feeling the need for money, he agreed to smuggle drugs across the border. For this, according to the courier, he should have received 1,500 US dollars, according to the organizer of the channel - 2,000 US dollars.

According to the instructions of the organizer, the courier arrived in Moscow, where a guy approached him at the Sadovod market and handed over a package of drugs and $ 800.

A drug courier was detained while crossing the state border of Ukraine. In court, officers of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said that measures to develop a channel for smuggling drugs from Russia to Ukraine were carried out by operational and investigative units of the borderguard agency. After being detected at the border, the courier agreed to cooperate with the investigation. He contacted the organizer and sent him a package packed by law enforcement officers imitating a "heroin" parcel.

In Odesa, organizer of the channel received a transfer in a logistics company branch, after which he was detained by the officials of the State Bordergguard Service and the Security Service of Ukraine. Police later found drugs at his place of residence. In court, the channel's organizer tried to convince judges that he was only a buyer and had bought drugs for his own use. The panel of judges was not convinced, as it failed to establish information that he had a stable source of income that would allow him to buy a large consignment of drugs, costing - $ 50 per 1 gram - for his own needs.

The court came to a conclusion that the accused intended to sell drugs because he illegally bought another 500 grams of heroin while using drugs at home.

Also during the court hearing, the bank employee testified that the accused had been constantly transferring amounts equivalent to 600-700 US dollars to a certain person in Tajikistan 2-3 times a week.

The court found the organizer of heroin smuggling guilty of crimes. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison with confiscation of all property belonging to him.