In Minsk convicted a foreign student: he was involved in the spread of psychotropics

The sentence of a 42-year-old previously unconvicted foreigner who was accused of illegal trafficking in prohibited substances came into legal force, the Minsk prosecutor’s office told the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency.

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The accused rented an apartment on the street in the capital. Railroad and studied in the fourth year of one of the universities. At the end of 2025, due to the difficult financial situation, he was looking for work on the Internet. In the messenger, a previously unknown user contacted him and offered to become a courier. The defendant agreed. Next, the curator dedicated him to all the subtleties of the upcoming “work”.

The foreigner began to pick up the bundles with the substance, which he packaged into small doses, and then placed in hiding places, while taking pictures indicating geographical coordinates. In February, on the instructions of the curator, he recovered from a cache in a forest belt near the station. “Uruchi” another master treasure – at least 269.91 g of powdered crystalline substance of white color, which contained in its composition a particularly dangerous psychotropic substance not used for medical purposes – mephedrone, brought it home and packaged it.

The next morning, in his car, the defendant went to the Minsk district, where he laid 72 bundles of caches. On his way back to the car, he was detained by drug control officers. During the search in the apartment of the suspect, 113.78 g of mephedrone was found, which he did not have time to package, as well as electronic scales, gloves, polymer bags, insulation of various colors and a polymer film.

A criminal case was opened against the foreigner. In the court hearing, he fully admitted guilt in the committed crime, repented of what he had done.

- The accused single person had not previously been brought to criminal responsibility, commented Yulia Lebedeva, deputy head of the Minsk prosecutor’s office for supervision over compliance with the law of judicial decisions in criminal cases. The court found him guilty of illegal acquisition, storage and transportation of particularly dangerous psychotropic substances, on a large scale, committed by a group of persons, and on the basis of Part 3 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code imposed a sentence of 9 years of imprisonment, which the accused will spend in a penal colony under enhanced regime, with a fine of 100 basic values (4 500 BYN).

In accordance with Part 1 of Art. 46-1 of the Criminal Code, his mobile phones were seized free of charge into the property of the state.

The sentence has entered into force.