Two colleagues will be tried in Minsk for illegal trafficking in banned substances

A criminal case has been sent to the court against two previously unconvicted colleagues, 31 and 45 years old, who are accused of illegal trafficking of psychotropic substances without the purpose of marketing, the Partizan district prosecutor’s office told the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency.

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The eldest of the defendants first tried psychoactive substances a few years ago and sometimes purchased them in shady online stores for personal use. In August 2026, before the start of the working shift, he met with a colleague. The men drank cognac and decided to use mephedrone, which was ordered in a drug shop. After confirming the payment, the administrator sent them geographical coordinates and a photo of the area where the bookmark was hidden.

Friends on public transport went to the forest near the street. Lipkovskaya. They quickly found the stash, nasal used part of the psychotropic and finished the cognac, and then were going to go to work. However, the men never got there because they were arrested. In the wallet of one of them, drug control operatives found a package with the remaining psychotropic - 1.73 g of 4-SMS.

A criminal case was opened against colleagues.

- Both defendants are employed, previously to criminal liability were not brought, — commented the assistant prosecutor of the Partizansky district Vitalina Vinnik. They are charged with unlawful acquisition and possession of psychotropic substances without the purpose of marketing, that is, with committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code, the sanction of which is up to five years in prison. Citizens fully acknowledged the guilt, sincerely repented of what they had done.