In the Carpathian region, a prisoner was given a new sentence for socks soaked in methadone
In the Carpathian region, law enforcement officials dismantled a network supplying narcotic and psychotropic substances to local correctional facilities. The organizer of the illegal trafficking turned out to be a convicted prisoner who, while in custody, recruited accomplices on the outside to participate in the scheme.
Prohibited packages were regularly delivered to the Kolomyia Correctional Facility and the Ivano-Frankivsk Detention Center via a major postal service. The organizer enlisted third parties who passed the prohibited substances to his common-law wife and an acquaintance.
The latter were responsible for sending the packages directly, without even realizing their actual contents. The perpetrators disguised the methadone and buprenorphine very ingeniously: they hid them in packs of tobacco, sewed them into the seams of sweaters and inside jackets, and the senders even thoroughly soaked one pair of socks in a methadone solution.
The smuggling ring was uncovered during a detailed inspection of routine mail by prison staff. During the court hearing, the defendant fully admitted his guilt. The man argued before the court that he was undergoing official substitution maintenance therapy, but claimed that the dosage prescribed by doctors was insufficient for him, so he ordered the drugs exclusively for his own use without the intent to resell them. Taking into account the defendant’s prior convictions and the clear recurrence of criminal offenses, the court sentenced him to six years of imprisonment without confiscation of property. The defendant is also required to pay a fine of 17,000 hryvnias under a previous sentence and reimburse over 6,000 hryvnias spent by the state on forensic chemical examinations.
This was reported by the publication "Blitz-Info."
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