SCNS reports large drug haul

DUSHANBE, November 9, 2012, Asia-Plus  — Officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) have reportedly seized nearly 145 kilograms of narcotics in two separate operations. According to the SCNS press center, nearly 9 kilograms of heroin and more than 49 kilograms of hashish were found yesterday in a basement of one of apartment […]

Avaz Yuldoshev

DUSHANBE, November 9, 2012, Asia-Plus  — Officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) have reportedly seized nearly 145 kilograms of narcotics in two separate operations.

According to the SCNS press center, nearly 9 kilograms of heroin and more than 49 kilograms of hashish were found yesterday in a basement of one of apartment buildings in Khujand, the capital of the northern Sughd province.

On the same day, the security officers reportedly detained two Tajik nationals at the Tajik-Afghan border in the Panj district, Khatlon province.  83.5 kilograms of raw opium were confiscated from them.

Several persons have been arrested over those two cases and an investigation is under way, the source said.    

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