DUSHANBE, July 4, 2008, Asia-Plus — Inhabitant of the Kustakuz jamoat in Sughd’s Bobojonghafruov district was detained by drug control officers yesterday on suspicion of having been involved in drug pushing, according to the Drug Control Agency (DCA) press service.
A package containing narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing 1.2 kilograms of confiscated from him.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted on drug-trafficking charges and an investigation is under way.
We will recall that officers from the counternarcotics agency have seized 952,442 kilograms of drugs over the first six months of this year, which is 82.6 percent more than in the same period of 2007,
