DUSHANBE, May 30, 2016, Asia-Plus – A 52-year-old Afghan national, who is temporarily living in Dushanbe, was detained in Dushanbe yesterday on suspicion of drug pushing, according to the Interior Ministry’s website.
The preliminary investigation has reportedly established that he together with his accomplices smuggled more than 40 kilograms of hashish into Tajikistan and hid the drugs in the Chubek jamoat of the Hamadoni district, Khatlon province.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against the detained drug peddler and an investigation is under way, the source said.
