DUSHANBE, March 3, 2016, 2016, Asia-Plus – The State Service on Drug Control of the Kyrgyz Republic (SSDC) reports a Tajik police officer has been detained with a large amount of hashish in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region.
According to the SSDC’s official website, an operation carried out by Kyrgyz drug control officers on March 1 led to the arrest of two Tajik nationals in Batken region on suspicion of drug trafficking.
One of them, I.M., 49, turned out an officer of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry. Two bags of narcotic dug that tested positive to hashish weighing 36.3 kilograms were found in his Opel-Vectra.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted under the provisions of Article 247 of Kyrgyzstan’s Penal Code — drug trafficking; an investigation is under way.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan have refrained from making any comment on that case. They have said they are not informed about the case and promised “to comment on the situation in the near future.”
