A court in Okhtyrka, Sumy Oblast, has sentenced a 34-year-old local man to eight years in prison with confiscation of property for illegally selling cannabis. Police detained him during one of the sales and seized more than two kilograms of cannabis from the basement of his house.
🇺🇦 Okhtyrka, Sumy Oblast · Ukraine
A court found a 34-year-old resident of Okhtyrka guilty of illegally selling
narcotic drugs and sentenced him to eight years in prison with confiscation of
property.[1]The Okhtyrka District Prosecutor’s Office supported the public
prosecution against the man.[2]The defendant denied his guilt in court, but
the prosecutor proved his involvement in the crime.[1]
The Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office said the man organised cannabis sales in
Okhtyrka through in-person meetings.[1]He kept the drugs in his car and at
home.[1]Police detained the man during one of the sales under Article 208 of
Ukraine’s Code of Criminal Procedure.[2]A search of the basement of his house
found more than two kilograms of cannabis, which officers seized.[2]
The sentence was imposed under part 2 of Article 307 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.[2]The pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the
Okhtyrka district police department under the procedural supervision of the
district prosecutor’s office.[1]
No separate date for the verdict was published; 12 November 2026 is the publication date of both the outlet report and the prosecutor's statement and is used as the incident date.
The seized cannabis is reported only as more than two kilograms, so 2 kg is recorded as a lower bound.
The man was not named in either account.
Whether the verdict has entered into force or was appealed was not reported.
No date was given for the detention or the search; they preceded the verdict by an unknown interval.
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