At the Bachivsk border crossing point, border guards of the Sumy border guard detachment together with customs officers prevented an attempt to move drugs across the border.

At the Bachivsk border crossing point, border guards of the Sumy border guard detachment together with customs officers prevented an attempt to move drugs across the border.

A citizen of Ukraine arrived at the border crossing point to leave for Russia in a Mercedes-Benz car.

During the car inspection, a service dog, specially trained to search drugs, worked on one of the bags.

In the bag, the border guards found a jacket in the sleeve of which there was a package with a dark green substance of a vegetable origin similar to marijuana. The weight of the substance reached 500 grams.

Subsequently, during a more detailed inspection of the jacket, law enforcement officers found 9 more packages with a crystalline substance of plant origin of pharmacological action with a total weight of about 1.5 kg.

According to the results of rapid tests, narcotic alkaloids are present in these substances.

 So far, the findings have been seized for a full examination. The National Police officers carry out operative and investigative actions in order to clarify all the circumstances of these criminal offenses.