Ten years in jail for keeping drugs

A Moldovan was sentenced to ten years behind bars for illegally using, keeping, extracting, processing and transporting large quantities of narcotic substances that are banned for medical use, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office. The man is accused of reaping hemp in 2008 and storing it in his house. According to statistical data, 572 drug-related offences had been recorded in Moldova during the first four months of this year. 411 legal cases over these offences have been sent to court.