Interior Ministry Offers Bounty for Help in Fighting Drug Trade

Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili announced on August 17 that the authorities will offer 1,000 Lari (USD 555) for valuable information leading to the capture of drug dealers. 

?We hope to see mass arrests of people involved in drug trade… but we need help from society” Merabishvili said at a news conference, adding that a special unit will be set up with a hot line within one week.

Merabishvili?s statement came on the heels of a police seizure of 4.3 kilograms of opium in the village of Ponichala on August 17 – the largest amount of drugs ever siezed in Georgia.

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