DUSHANBE, January 16, 2012, Asia-Plus — An operation carried out by officers from the Drug Control Agency (DCA) in Dushanbe at the end of last week led to the arrest of a drug trafficker from the northern Sughd province.
When searching his all-terrain vehicle Ssang Yong Musso, the drug control officers found a sack of narcotic drug that tested positive to heroin weighing some 44 kilograms.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the detained drug pusher and an investigation is under way.
Officers for the counter narcotics agency have reportedly seized more than 145 kilograms of narcotics this month.
