DUSHANBE, September 11, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- A 44-year-old women from the northern city of Khujand, who is an owner of one of local drugstores, has been arrested on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking.

The Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s press center reports she was detained on September 10 and two packages of hashish were confiscated from her.

While searching an apartment of one of her employees, the drug control officers reportedly found 13 other packages of narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing some ten kilograms.

Both women have been arrested and criminal proceedings have been instituted against them under the provisions of Article 200 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code – a large scale drug trafficking.  An investigation is under way.

If convicted, the women could face jail terms of 12 to 20 years each, the source said.