A joint operation carried out by law enforcement officers of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has led to the arrest of a 37-yer-old national of Tajikistan, K.O.A., on suspicion of a large-scale drug trafficking.
Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry calls him the organizer of a major drug smuggling channel.
Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry announced yesterday that an activity of international drug trafficking syndicate involved in large scale heroin trafficking has been neutralized.
The Tajik national was reportedly detained in the Kazakh city of Almaty on suspicion of a large-scale drug trafficking and more than 100 kilograms of heroin were confiscated from him.
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry calls him the organizer of a major channel of smuggling narcotic drugs out of Afghanistan through Kyrgyzstan’s territory.
“The approximate value of the seized drug in the gray market is 1.19 million U.S. dollars,” the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry press center says.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the detained drug dealer and an investigation is under way.
