The Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan has sent a letter to the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan asking to arrest the leader and members of the organized crime group involved in smuggling narcotics into Tajikistan.
Investigation has reportedly established that the group members include nationals of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The group smuggles narcotics into Tajikistan and from there to the Russian Federation.
The DCA spokesman Khoushnoud Rahmatulloyev says Tajik drug control officers detained two active members of this group – Tajik national Nourali Boboyev and Afghan national Siddiq Mohammad Ziraki – in mid-December last year. More than 203 kilograms of hashish were confiscated from them.
Nourali Boboyev was sentenced to twenty years in prison and Siddiq Mohammad Ziraki got a jail term of twenty-five years.
Nourali Boboyev, nicknamed “Nouri the Karagach,” was reportedly the leader of that organized crime group in Tajikistan. He had previous conviction. Boboyev was jailed in 2005 after he and his cousin were detained with 191 kilograms of narcotics. A totaled included 100 kilograms of heroin and 91 kilograms of raw opium.
Tajik counter narcotics agency asks its Afghan counterparts to arrest and punish the leader of that transnational organized crime group. His name is not disclosed.
Recall, Tajik border service said that the incursion occurred at 11:30 p.m. on July 3 in area patrolled by the Hamadoni border unit. The traffickers reportedly retreated after meeting fire from Tajik border troops and that the bodies of two men, aged between 30 and 35, were found at the scene after the incident. Tajik border guards also found five kilograms of an unspecified narcotic substance and a hunting knife at the scene.
Another clash occurred on the same date in the area patrolled by the Panj border unit. After the exchange of gunfire, Tajik border guards found 16 kilograms of hashish and a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Sputnik news agency cited security services as saying that Tajik authorities had registered 32 illegal incursions since the start of this year alone.
