A young man studying economics and finance was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking. He was apprehended in 2021, when he was caught with 60 small bags with the synthetic drug PVP, IPN reports.

The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases said the detected drugs called “salt” can cause paranoia or hallucinations and can also lead to self-harm. In addition to the 60 bags he had with him, more than 100 grams of the same type of drugs were found at his home in Chisinau.

The young man is from Telenești. His duty was to pack drugs in bags and took them to hiding places in Chisinau. According to the defendant’s statements, for each delivered bag he was paid US$3 and he delivered 10-20 bags per day.

After the young man was arrested in November 2021, he was placed in pretrial detention. In addition to the jail term, the court ordered to confiscate the sum of 10,000 lei, which was seized from him, and the equivalent value of over 50,000 lei received on the bank account, which the young man spent before his detention and came from the sale of drugs.