DUSHANBE, March 4, 2016, Asia-Plus – Tajik Interior Ministry says that Tajik police officer that was detained in Kyrgyzstan for drug trafficking on March 1 was fired on February 9.

According to the Tajik Interior Ministry’s website, Murodali Ibrohimov was fired for an action discrediting honor of a police officer.

We will recall that the State Service on Drug Control of the Kyrgyz Republic (SSDC) reported on March 3 that a Tajik police officer has been detained with a large amount of hashish in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region.

According to the SSDC’s official website, an operation carried out by Kyrgyz drug control officers on March 1 led to the arrest of two Tajik nationals in Batken region on suspicion of drug trafficking.

One of them, M.I., 49, turned out an officer of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry.  Two bags of narcotic dug that tested positive to hashish weighing 36.3 kilograms were found in his Opel-Vectra.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted under the provisions of Article 247 of Kyrgyzstan’s Penal Code -- drug trafficking; an investigation is under way.