DUSHANBE, June 16, 2009, Asia-Plus — The anti-drug operation, dubbed Poppy-2009, is going on in Tajikistan and the law enforcement authorities discovered and destroyed some 2,700 drug-containing plants yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior (MoI).
A poppy field, totaling 346 bushes, was discovered and destroyed by police near one of households in the Shahrinav district, some 46 kilometers west of Dushanbe, yesterday.
The same day, police officers discovered and destroyed 34 hemp bushes near one of apartment buildings on the Roudaki Avenue in Dushanbe, the source at a MoI said.
In the meantime, press service of the Drug Control Agency (DCA) reports that officers from the GBAO counternarcotics directorate discovered and destroyed 2,323 bushes of wild hemp in the Shugnan district on Monday.
Besides, two residents of Khatlon’s Panj district – Rustam Nourov and Firdavs Nourov – were detained by police in Dushanbe yesterday on suspicion of having been involved in drug trafficking. 36 kilograms of hashish were confiscated from them. The same day, resident of the Vahdat district – Muboraksho Shoetiborov – was also detained in Dushanbe for drug pushing. 500 grams of heroin were confiscated from him.
