Three drug addicts in Minsk figured out how to get opioid pills. The plan almost worked

A criminal case has been sent to the court against three citizens who are accused of illegal trafficking in prohibited substances, the Frunze district prosecutor’s office told the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency.

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The firm's director, 39, was registered with a drug doctor for substance addiction. Once he met a man who hinted that through his friend you can buy a potent synthetic opioid analgesic, which, if used non-medical and exceeded therapeutic doses, causes drug addicts a certain euphoria.

In June 2026, a Minsk resident called a new acquaintance and asked him to help in the purchase of the drug. They agreed to meet. He came to her with a man. Next, the stranger went to the doctor, who wrote him a prescription for an analgesic, cooked him in a pharmacy and handed the blisters to the “customer”.

After the company went to another doctor, who issued a prescription to a friend of the director of the company. The man bought the pills on him also gave the Minsk man. On his way home, he took 12 capsules.

On the platform of the metro station "Stone Gorka" to the citizen came police officers in plainclothes and detained him. During a personal search, 99 prescription analgesic tablets were found in the man. A criminal case was opened against the Minsk citizen.

- The accused is married, has three dependent minor children, was previously brought to criminal responsibility for fraud - the conviction was extinguished, said Andrei Serbun, deputy prosecutor of the Frunze district. He was charged with committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code (“Illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues”).

During the investigation, the identities of two other unemployed defendants, who are 31 and 45 years old, were established. The eldest of them is single, twice brought to criminal responsibility for robbery and hooliganism. His friend was convicted four times for hooliganism and five for committing property crimes. Both have convictions cleared. They are charged with illegal acquisition, storage, transportation and illegal sale of psychotropic substances, that is, committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code.

According to experts, all three defendants need compulsory treatment for drug addiction and chronic alcoholism. They fully admitted guilt.

A preventive measure in the form of a personal guarantee was applied against the defendants.