DUSHANBE, April1 5, Asia-Plus  -- Officers from the Tajik transportation police directorate seized more than 3 kilograms of heroin at the Dushanbe airport last Saturday, a source at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) told Asia-Plus on Tuesday.  

The source at a MoI said that one of passengers on the Dushanbe-Moscow flight – the 59-year-old resident of GBAO’s Roshtqala district Rahimbek Faroghatov – was detained on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking.  “An inspection of his luggage found 3.10 kilograms of heroin hidden in pomegranates,” the source said. 

  Criminal proceedings have been instituted on drug trafficking charges and an investigation is under way.