Preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding on illegal turnover of narcotic drugs through <<Telegram>> social site with the involvement of a number of people, money laundering, as well as procurement of illegal weapon by a person involved in illegal turnover of narcotic drugs was completed on two more  persons.

Through investigation conducted in the First Investigative Division of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts of Yerevan Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee it was grounded that in order to get income from drug sale, with the intent to organize effective sale through <<Telegram>>, 32 year-old resident of Yerevan T.M. formed a criminal group in which he involved his friend and other people not identified yet.

An appropriate role distribution was made among the members of the group. Particularly, 32 year-old T.M. procured narcotic drugs of <<Methamphetamine>> type in particularly large amount from IRI citizen, 24 year-old Armenian, and narcotic drugs of <<Marijuana>> and <<Ecstasy>> type from unidentified persons, he divided them into parts, weighed, put them in different separated packages in hiding places the coordinates of which he sent to a telegram user.

The persons sent by the latter put the drug packages in different parts of Yerevan and sent their coordinates with appropriate photos to T.M and his friend 's telegram pages.

T.M.'s friend was involved in advertising of the mentioned 2 pages, he sent the photos of the places where drugs were located to the buyers and received an amount promised in advance by T.M. for the mentioned actions.

Then in order to conceal the criminal origin, movement and placement of the financial means received in the result of drug sale, that is for the purpose of <<money laundering>>, a part of the amount was sent to T.M. by the customers  already converted to crypto currency to 10 electronic accounts of crypto currency owned by him.

The latter converted the crypto currency into money through persons engaged in crypto currency exchange and received the money on his account.

24 year-old citizen of Iran received money through transfer made to his friend’s bank account for selling narcotic drugs of <<Methamphetamine>> type procured illegally to T.M..

Through 34 year-old man's personal search as well as searches conducted in his car, garage rented by him, narcotic drugs of <<Methamphetamine>>, <<Marijuana>>, <<Hashish oil>> in particularly large amount packed in dozens of packages for further sale, as well as 2 electric scales with traces of narcotic drug of <<Methamphetamine>> type, weights, 162 black objects similar to rubber, 30 glass bottles, adhesive tapes, plastic containers, about 600 zip packages and other objects were found. Through search conducted in T.M.'s apartment factory production bullets of 7.62mm procured illegally by the latter were also found.

On the base of the obtained sufficient facts charge was pressed against 34 year-old T.M. according to the Point 2 of the Part 3 of the Article 393, the Parts 1 of the Article 335 and the Article 296 of RA Criminal Code. Detention was chosen as a pretrial measure against him. Charge was pressed against IRI citizen according to the Point 2 of the Part 2 of the Article 393 of RA Criminal Code. Detention was chosen as a pretrial measure against him which, by court's decision, was replaced by mortgage of 5.000.000 AMD.

Preliminary investigation on the part of the mentioned persons was completed and the materials of the proceeding with the bill of indictment were sent to court.

The materials of the proceeding on T.M.'s friend were separated earlier and sent to court. Charge was pressed against the latter according to the Point 2 of the Part 3 of the Article 393 of RA Criminal Code.

Within the proceeding at the stage of investigation all possible measures are taken to identify all members of the group engaged in illegal turnover of narcotic drugs, to find out the source of narcotic drugs as well as the weapon kept illegally.