Four-and-a-half and five years for 30 kg cannabis farm at Kose manor
Harju County Court sentenced Meelis Pähnat to four and a half years and Serafim Gerzuni to five years (nine months immediate) on 2 September 2026 after police found about 30 kg of cannabis and buds at a professional grow in a rented distillery building at Valli manor, Kose.
🇪🇪 Valli manor, Kose Parish, Harju County · Estonia
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Charged
2
Cannabis
30 kg
Prison
4.5 years and 5 years (nine months immediate for Gerzuni)
Police arrested 38-year-old Meelis Pähnat and 34-year-old Serafim Gerzuni in March 2026 at a
cannabis grow they had run in rented rooms of a former distillery at Valli manor in Kose Parish,
Harju County.[1][2][3]Officers seized about 30 kilograms of cannabis and buds plus grow lights,
ventilation, irrigation and packaging equipment.[1][2][3]
Prosecutors said the operation was commercial: the quantity could intoxicate at least 44,500
people, and both men admitted guilt in a plea procedure.[1][2][3]The court also ordered each to
pay €10,000 in lieu of confiscating further assets.[1][2][3]
Harju County Court on 2 September 2026 sentenced Pähnat to four and a half years in prison and
Gerzuni to five years, of which he must serve nine months immediately with the remainder
suspended on probation if he completes supervision and a social programme.[1][2][3]The judgment
had not yet become final.[1][2][3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
2
Cannabis
30 kg
Prison
4.5 years and 5 years (nine months immediate for Gerzuni)
Prosecutors said cultivation ran from August 2024 until the March 2026 arrests, while one court report said August 2023; the sources opened disagreed on the start year.
Postimees put dried plants found at the site at more than 28 kg plus over 4 kg packaged in a car, while the prosecution summary rounded the total near 30 kg without that split.
Proceedings against a third suspect were still open when the judgment was announced, and the verdict had not yet entered into force.
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Estonia's Tax and Customs Board stopped nearly 79 kilograms of narcotic and psychotropic substances crossing the border in the first nine months of 2026, with cannabis and cannabis products the largest share at 42.7 kilograms. The board put the haul at hundreds of thousands of doses and said new psychoactive substance seizures had more than doubled on the same period of 2025.
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