Drug lawyer

Lawyer under Art. 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus

The criminal law of Belarus provides for quite severe punishment for drug offenses.

Currently, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus provides for criminal liability on the following grounds:

• Art. 327 of the Criminal Code “Theft of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues”
• Art. 328 of the Criminal Code “Illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues”
• Art. 328-1 of the Criminal Code “Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Republic of Belarus of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their precursors or analogues”
• Art. 328-2 “Consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues in a public place or appearing in a public place or being at work in a state caused by the consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues, toxic or other intoxicating substances”
• Art. 329 of the Criminal Code “Illegal sowing and (or) cultivation of plants or mushrooms containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances”
• Art. 330 of the Criminal Code “Violation of the rules for handling narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues”
• Art. 331 of the Criminal Code “Inducement to use narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues”
• Art. 332 of the Criminal Code “Providing premises, organizing or maintaining dens for the manufacture, processing and (or) consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or other intoxicating substances and others”

Drug lawyer

The timely request for legal assistance in this category of cases is of great importance, since the evidence base begins to form, in addition to the conducted operational investigations, also from the very first explanations of the person, who subsequently acquires the status of a suspect, and subsequently an accused. In practice, there are cases when the basis for a future accusation is formed by information that a person provided during an “informal, off-the-record” conversation with operational officers.

Our lawyers have more than twenty years of experience in criminal cases under Art. 328 of the Criminal Code and other “narcotic” articles.

We provide the following legal assistance:

• participation in investigative actions as a defense attorney in a criminal case;
• participation as a defense attorney during interrogation;
• participation as a defense attorney in a confrontation;
• preparation of petitions in criminal cases;
• appealing the arrest, the applied preventive measure in the form of detention;
• visiting the accused in places of detention;
• protecting the interests of the accused in court;
• preparation of an appeal against a court verdict;
• preparation of a complaint by way of supervision against a court verdict;

Responsibility under Art. 328 CC

The criminal law establishes a rather severe punishment for committing a crime under Art. 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Illegal without goals sales manufacturing, processing, acquisition, storage, shipping or shipment narcotic funds, psychotropic substances or their precursors or analogues are punished limitation freedom on term before five years or deprivation freedom on term from two before five years. The same actions committed for the purpose of selling drugs are punishable deprivation freedom on term from three before eight years with fine or without fine 

A special category of cases are criminal cases under Part 3 of Art. 328 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, which, among other things, provides for liability for the sale of drugs by a group of persons. The sanction of this article provides for liability in the form of deprivation freedom on term from six before fifteen years with fine or without fine

Only a lawyer will explain to you all the subtleties and nuances that can affect the qualification of the suspect’s actions, help you avoid mistakes, take all necessary measures to comply with the client’s procedural rights, and draw the court’s attention to inadmissible evidence obtained in violation of the law, for example, improperly executed seizure of material evidence.

The sooner a lawyer begins to defend a client, the greater the chance of obtaining an optimal result.