What is the penalty framework for the crime of illegal drug trafficking involving two or more people?

Reply:Pursuant to Article 251 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended by Clause 68, Article 1 of the Law amending the 2017 Penal Code, it is stipulated as follows:

Crime of illegal drug trafficking:

1. Anyone who illegally buys and sells drugs shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 02 years to 07 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 07 years to 15 years:

a) Organized;

b) Committing the crime two or more times;

c) For 02 people or more;

d) Abusing position and power;

d) Taking advantage of the name of an agency or organization;

e) Using a person under 16 years of age to commit a crime or selling drugs to a person under 16 years of age;

g) Crossing the border;

h) Opium resin, cannabis resin or coca extract weighing from 500 grams to less than 01 kilogram;

i) Heroine, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Amphetamine, MDMA or XLR-11 weighing from 05 grams to less than 30 grams;

k) Coca leaves; khat leaves (Catha edulis leaves); leaves, roots, stems, branches, flowers, fruits of cannabis plants or other plant parts containing narcotic substances as prescribed by the Government with a weight from 10 kilograms to less than 25 kilograms;

l) Dried opium fruit weighing from 50 kilograms to less than 200 kilograms;

m) Fresh opium fruit weighing from 10 kilograms to less than 50 kilograms;

n) Other solid narcotics with a mass from 20 grams to less than 100 grams;

o) Other liquid narcotics with a volume from 100 milliliters to less than 250 milliliters;

p) Possessing two or more narcotic substances, the total mass or volume of which is equivalent to the mass or volume of the narcotic substance specified in one of the points from point h to point o of this clause;

q) Dangerous recidivism.

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Thus, the penalty framework applied to the crime of illegal drug trafficking with the circumstance "against 02 people or more" is from 07 years to 15 years.