DUSHANBE, January 22, 2013, Asia-Plus — Officers from the Drug Control Agency (DCA) have conducted a number of successful operations over the past three days, the DCA press center reports.
On January 18, a resident of the Roudaki district was detained in Dushanbe on suspicion of having been involved in drug pushing. 40 wraps of narcotic drug that tested positive to raw opium weighing nearly one kilogram were confiscated from him.
The alleged drug peddler’s two partners in crime were arrested on the same day. Both of them are also residents of the Roudaki district and one of them is an officer from the Interior Ministry guarding department, the press center reports.
On January 20, drug control officers jointly with officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)’ office for Gorno Badakhshan detained a drug trafficker who was illegally crossing the border river in the Ishkashim district. A package of heroin was confiscated from him.
On the same day, the 51-year-old Russian national was detained in Dushanbe on suspicion of manufacturing and selling counterfeit banknotes. He has two previous convictions. When searching an apartment the detainee was renting in Dushanbe, the DCA officers reportedly found counterfeit papers of the United States, the Russian Federation, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as equipment for manufacturing them.
