A 34-year-old man from Paphos was on Friday sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of possession of illegal drugs with the intent to supply, among other crimes.
Those other crimes included the laundering of exactly €370 and the transportation of an offensive weapon.
In court, it was stated that the man had been found to be in possession of just shy of 9.3 kilograms of cannabis, all of which was located in his apartment.
He had been arrested after the police had received a tip off regarding a “large quantity of drugs” in an apartment in Kato Paphos, with the police then putting the apartment under “discreet surveillance”.
The man was seen parking a car near the apartment block in which he lives, before entering it, and then exiting it again, before driving off.
Police then stopped his car and searched it, finding a folding metal baton, a knife with a nine-centimetre blade, and two keys inside.
When they searched his person, they found the €370 in cash in one of his trouser pockets, while a search of his apartment turned up the cannabis in nine transparent nylon packages, 32 transparent nylon bags, and three other transparent bags, as well as a precision scale on which traces of cannabis were also detected.
According to prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou, the man confessed that all the cannabis found in the apartment belonged to him.
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