June 2019
2 reports. Seizures 1 · Prosecutions 1
Solomon Islands police intercept a cannabis parcel bound for Kiribati
Aviation security detected a suspicious box on a Solomon Airlines flight to Kiribati and police found cannabis. Two people, including an airline employee, were charged with attempted export and appeared in the Honiara Magistrates' Court in late July 2019. The amount was not stated.
A journalist's arrest puts Russia's drug article on trial
Moscow police arrested the investigative reporter Ivan Golunov on drug charges; they published photographs of a drug laboratory and then admitted that only one had been taken in his flat. Three leading newspapers ran the same front page, the case was dropped after four days, and five officers were later sentenced to between 5 and 12 years. The case revived calls to soften Article 228.