Russian pensioner caught with 19 kg of drugs

The Kushvin City Court of the Sverdlovsk region sentenced a pensioner from Novosibirsk. The man was found guilty of attempting to sell a large consignment of drugs. This was reported in the joint press service of the courts of the region.

According to the department, he fully admitted guilt and asked for leniency. The court qualified his actions under part 3 of Article 30 and part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Taking into account mitigating circumstances, he was sentenced to 9 years 6 months of imprisonment with serving in a strict regime colony.

It is established that the pensioner worked on private cargo transportation. He agreed to the offer of the unknown to collect and transport drugs in different regions. In the Sverdlovsk region, the man arrived from the Novosibirsk region.

In the forest near Kushva, he took 19 kilograms of drugs from a stash, divided them into pieces and equipped four new stashes. To bring the plan to the end, the pensioner could not: he was detained by police officers. The sentence has not yet entered into force.