Police in Ivano-Frankivsk region exposed a 48-year-old Kolomyia resident and his 29-year-old accomplice from Kolomyia district over a full cycle of cannabis production.[1] The older man sowed cannabis on open ground in the Horodenka community at the end of spring 2026 and tended the crop to maturity.[1] He illegally grew more than 60 cannabis plants.[1] Both men work in the railway industry, and the organizer later brought in the younger man to harvest, process and move the crop.[1]

In September 2026 they jointly collected the cannabis harvest into prepared bags.[1] They drove the raw material in the older man’s Mercedes-Benz to Kolomyia and to Sheparivtsi, where they dried it and stored it for sale.[1] In Kolomyia police seized 7 buckets of plant material, and in Sheparivtsi, at the younger man’s home, plastic wraps, packets and a container of crushed plant mass.[1] Those searches recovered more than 13.5 kg of dried cannabis and 60 cannabis plants.[2] Police put the black-market value at no less than 8 million hryvnias and said the amount is an especially large amount.[1]

Police said the men planned to sell the bulk wholesale to other regions of Ukraine.[1] They also sold hand-to-hand in Kolomyia district.[1] Both men were detained on 9 November 2026.[2]

On 10 November prosecutors notified both men of suspicion of group manufacture, storage and transportation for sale under Part 3 of Article 307.[2] The 48-year-old organizer was additionally notified of illegal sowing and cultivation under Part 2 of Article 310.[1] A court ordered both held in custody without bail.[3]