Russian sentenced to 11 years in prison for storing drugs in Vitebsk apartment
A Russian national who kept drugs in a Vitebsk apartment has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, the senior assistant prosecutor of Vitebsk Sergey Urbanovich told a BELTA correspondent.
More than 52 grams of hashish and electronic scales with microparticles of a narcotic substance were found at the accused's place of residence in Vitebsk. According to the testimony of the suspect in the criminal case, he purchased the drugs in St. Petersburg for personal consumption and brought them to the regional center in the summer of 2014.
By court decision, the native of St. Petersburg, born in 1993, was found guilty of illegally acquiring, storing, and transporting narcotic drugs in a large quantity for the purpose of sale.
He was sentenced under Part 3 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code of Belarus to 11 years of imprisonment, without confiscation of property, with serving the sentence in a correctional colony under enhanced regime conditions. In addition, compulsory measures for security and treatment for drug addiction were applied to him.
The sentence has entered into legal force.
Alena Tikhonova