Woman detained for drug trafficking

DUSAHNBE, June 12 – Officers from the counternarcotics agency have discovered some one kilogram of heroin in an apartment in the center of Dushanbe. Avaz Yuldoshev, a spokesman for the Drug Control Agency (DCA), told Asia-Plus that their officers found 306 containers with totaling some one kilogram of heroin yesterday, when they were searching an […]

DUSAHNBE, June 12 – Officers from the counternarcotics agency have discovered some one kilogram of heroin in an apartment in the center of Dushanbe.

Avaz Yuldoshev, a spokesman for the Drug Control Agency (DCA), told Asia-Plus that their officers found 306 containers with totaling some one kilogram of heroin yesterday, when they were searching an apartment in Dushanbe that was rented by a 46-year-old woman.  

The drug control officers suppose the narcotics were prepared for internally smuggling into the Russian Federation.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted and an investigation is under way.

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