DUSHANBE, November 4, – Officers from the Drug Control Agency (DCA) have intercepted 1,226 kilograms of drugs over the past 10 months. The total included some 446 kilograms of heroin, 520 kilograms of raw opium and 240 kilograms of cannabis.
Over the same ten-month period, Tajik counternarcotics agency has seized 14 firearms, three explosives and 914 bullets of different calibers. The drug control officers also discovered and destroyed 466,858 bushes of wild hemp over the report period.
Forty operations carried out by DCA jointly with other Tajik law enforcement agencies and special services of the CIS states and Afghanistan in January-October 2006 led to the seizure of 1,026 kilograms of drugs, including 336 kilograms of heroin.
