Counternarcotics agency burns some 218 kilos of drugs

DUSHANBE, May 2, Asia-Plus  — The Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) is burning some 218 kilograms of drugs today.   Colonel Alisher Orifov, an official with the counter narcotics agency, told Asia-Plus that the totaled includes some 76 kilograms of hashish, 74 kilograms of heroin, 38 kilograms of raw opium, and more than 28 kilograms of […]

Avaz Yuldoshev

DUSHANBE, May 2, Asia-Plus  — The Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) is burning some 218 kilograms of drugs today.

  Colonel Alisher Orifov, an official with the counter narcotics agency, told Asia-Plus that the totaled includes some 76 kilograms of hashish, 74 kilograms of heroin, 38 kilograms of raw opium, and more than 28 kilograms of cannabis, including that the drugs were confiscated in the course of 2007-08 and were material evidences in 40 criminal proceedings.  

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