Drugs to the value of 7.5 million lei were seized after a man and a woman were caught with a bag with mephedrone and PVP at the border with Ukraine.

In a wooded strip near Vulcănești city, the suspects took the bag with drugs that was brought clandestinely through the green area of the border. The police are to identify the accomplices, including the people who put the drugs in the agreed place.

After searches carried out at the house of the taxi driver and in the apartment of the unemployed woman in Chisinau, the law enforcement officers seized another 2 kg of mephedrone and PVP and 2 kg of marijuana. The drugs weigh almost 13 kg. The two were placed in pre-trial detention for 25 and 30 days, respectively.

The investigations continue. In the period, the persons benefit from the presumption of innocence.