Two held in Chisinau taxi with 2 kg marijuana among 13 kg drugs
Police stopped a taxi at the entrance to Chisinau and detained a 55-year-old driver and a 35-year-old woman over a bag of drugs smuggled from Ukraine. Home searches added 2 kg of marijuana to about 9 kg of synthetic drugs in the car, with police putting the combined haul at about 13 kg.
Police stopped a taxi at the entrance to Chisinau carrying a 55-year-old man and
a 35-year-old woman who had travelled from Vulcanesti district.[1]The
defendants were placed in preventive detention for 25 and 30 days respectively.[2]
A search of the car boot found about 9 kg of synthetic drugs.[1]Later
searches of the driver’s home and the woman’s flat seized an additional 2 kg of
mephedrone and PVP together with 2 kg of marijuana.[2]Police put the total
drugs removed from circulation at about 13 kg.[2]Police valued the combined
haul at 7.5 million lei.[3]
Police said the drugs had been smuggled into Moldova from Ukraine and collected
from a cache in a forest strip in Vulcanesti district.[3]The court of
Chisinau’s Chekany sector ordered the preventive detention.[1]The detention
followed a request from PCCOCS, the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized
Crime and Special Cases.[2]Police said the suspects face up to 15 years in
prison.[3]Police said work to identify accomplices, including those who had
placed the drugs in the hiding spot, was continuing.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
2 kg
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Forest or wild land, Prison
Case stage
Under investigation
Route
Ukraine → Moldova
Sources
NewsMakernewsmaker.mdRU(ВИДЕО) На въезде в Кишинев задержали такси, перевозившее мешок наркотиков на 7,5 млн леев
Radio Moldovaradiomoldova.mdA man and a woman – detained with a bag of drugs worth 7.5 million lei at the Ukrainian border
Moldova 1moldova1.mdRUВ Кишиневе водителя и пассажирку такси задержали с мешком наркотиков
Open questions the AI reported
The 13 kg total and 7.5 million lei valuation cover mephedrone, PVP and marijuana together, so no cannabis-only total or value is recorded.
Mephedrone and PVP quantities are mentioned only to explain the mixed haul and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The reports give no separate date for the road stop or the home searches; 9 December 2024 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
The reports do not say how the 25-day and 30-day detention terms were divided between the two suspects.
No court outcome beyond preventive detention was reported; the investigation was still under way.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Radio Moldova: The pair were caught red-handed with the drug bag.
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