DUSHANBE, May 14, Asia-Plus  -- Two persons have been detained in Dushanbe on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking, according to the public relations department within the Drug Control Agency (DCA).

 On April 13, officers from the counternarcotics agency stopped a car Opel-Astra driven by the 24-year-old resident of Dushanbe.  When searching the car they found two plastic bottles of narcotic drug that tested positive to heroin weighing 993.1 grams and hashish weighing 7.514 kilograms.

The driver and his passenger, who provide to be his aunt, were detained on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking.  

The counternarcotics agency has instituted criminal proceedings on drug-trafficking charge and an investigation is under way.