DUSHANBE, January 15, 2014, Asia-Plus – Officers from the Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) have conducted a number of successful operations this month and more than 12 kilograms of narcotics have been seized, according to the DCA press center.
A joint operation carried out by officers from the DCA’s office for the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) and officers from the Interior Ministry’s office for GBAO in the Ishkashim district reportedly led to the arrest of Afghan drug trafficker Shafi waladi Khairmahmad.
Eighteen packages of narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing eight kilograms were confiscated from him.
Besides, two residents of the northern city of Khujand, the capital of Sughd province have been arrested on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking. 2.93 kilograms of heroin and 1.033 kilograms of hashish have been confiscated from them.
Officers from the DCA’s office in Khatlon province have received information that resident of the Rumi district stores narcotics in his house. Eight wraps of hashish were found hidden in hen house.
Besides, more than 700 grams of cannabis have been confiscated from resident of the southern city of Kulob.
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