DUSHANBE, February 22, 2016, Asia-Plus – Four officers of the drug trafficking department at the Interior Ministry’s office for Khatlon province have been detained for drug trafficking.
An official source at one of the Tajik power-wielding structures says a joint operation carried out by officers of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and Tajik border guards on February 20 led to the seizure of a large amount of hashish in the Shouroobod district of Khatlon province.
“Four officers of the drug trafficking department at the Interior Ministry’s office for Khatlon province were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and several packages of narcotic drug tested positive to hashish weighing 56 kilograms were confiscated from them,” the source said.
The source has refrained from giving further details of the incident.
The Prosecutor-General Office has instituted criminal proceedings against the detained police officers and an investigation is under way.
