Major Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Case Uncovered

The Investigative Committee reports that during the preliminary investigation of a criminal proceeding being investigated in the General Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee, evidence was obtained that H.N., during 2024-2025, illegally acquired particularly large quantities of various types of drugs for the purpose of sale, ensured their separation by weight, packaging, and preliminary placement in hiding spots, which was photographed and, through an online store-platform registered in the "Telegram" telecommunication application managed by accomplices, was transferred to persons who had expressed a desire to acquire drugs and had transferred appropriate amounts of funds to cryptocurrency wallets. This is reported by the RA IC.

"A particularly large quantity of the "Marijuana" type drug, with a total weight of 6.5 kg, was found and seized during a search conducted at H.N.'s actual place of residence.

During the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding, it was also revealed that H.N., in order to conceal the criminal origin and true nature of the particularly large financial means received from the sale of drugs, used bank accounts and an electronic wallet, the financial means of 14,272,985 AMD credited to which were managed by him, thus committing money laundering in particularly large amounts.

A public criminal prosecution has been initiated against H.N. under Article 393, Part 3, Clause 2 of the Criminal Code (illegal circulation for the purpose of selling or illegal sale of drugs, psychotropic substances, their preparations or their equivalent substances (analogues) or their derivatives in particularly large amounts) and Article 296, Part 3, Clause 3 (money laundering in particularly large amounts).

Detention has been applied to the latter as a preventive measure.

The criminal proceeding regarding H.N., with the indictment, has been sent to the supervising prosecutor with a motion to confirm it and send it to court for substantive examination," the statement reads.