DUSHANBE, January 5, 2012, Asia-Plus — On Thursday January 5, the Drug Control Agency (DCA) destroyed more than 213 kilograms of narcotics in a special narcotic-burning incinerator, the DCA press center reports.
A totaled reportedly included 47 kilograms of hashish, more than five kilograms of heroin, 333 grams of raw opium and 160.6 kilograms of cannabis.
Besides, a consignment of tablets of phenobarbital (luminal), which is on the list of the psychotropic substances, was destroyed in the incinerator, the source said.
The destroyed narcotics were seized by Tajik law enforcement authorities and were material evidence in twenty-five criminal cases on which court verdicts have come into effect.
