DUSHANBE, July 6, 2015, Asia-Plus — Drug Control officers have reportedly seized more than 24.6 kilograms of drugs in two separate operations.
Khoushnoud Rahmatulloyev, a spokesman for the Drug Control Agency (DCA), says a 34-year-old resident of Afghan Takhar province was detained in Khatlon’s Farkhor district on July 5.
One package of narcotic drug that tested positive to cannabis weighing 641 grams and four packages of narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing 4 kilograms were confiscated from him.
On the same day, officers of the DCA’s office in the Darvoz district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) detained a 33-year-old resident of Afghan Badakhshan near the village of Durobak. He was reportedly wounded while resisting detention. A sack of narcotic drug that tested positive to cannabis weighing about 20 kilograms and a pistol were confiscated from him.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against both detained drug traffickers and an investigation is under way.
