In the Samarkand region, the security forces conducted a joint operation. Suspects committing crimes related to drug trafficking were detained.
According to the State Security Service, a Nexia car, driven by a resident of the Ishtikhan district (born in 1982), was stopped and inspected at the traffic police checkpoint, on the border of Samarkand and Navoi regions.
In the car interior, 2 kilograms 27 grams of opium were found and seized. Drugs smuggled out of Tajikistan were transported to the Khorezm region for sale.
In another case, 984 grams of hashish were found and confiscated from two people (born in 1982 and 1996), living in Bekabad, when their car was searched at the Chupon ota checkpoint in Samarkand.
Their accomplice, a resident of Bekabad (born in 1995), who was convicted three times, was also detained in the Bulungur district while transporting 989 grams of hashish in a Nexia car.
In the Samarkand region, the organizer of the group (born in 1995), a resident of Bekabad, who was engaged in drug smuggling from Tajikistan, was also detained.
In the same direction, SSS employees of the Fergana and Andijan regions, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, carried out operative events.
Two drug dealers were detained when one of them, a former convict (born in 1991), living in the Kuva district, transferred 1 kilogram 986 grams of hashish to his accomplice, a 30-year-old resident of Andijan, for further sale.
It turned out that the drugs were bought from a citizen of Kyrgyzstan for $5,000 and delivered to the Kuva district by a roundabout way.
A resident of the Besharyk district (born in 1984), was arrested while smuggling 940 grams of opium into Kokand, bought from a Tajik drug dealer for $5,000, and selling it to two former convicts (born in 1977 and 1979).
A previously convicted citizen (born in 1987) was arrested in Kokand while selling 826 units of psychotropic drugs Regapen and 80 Tropicamide for $2,000.
A Nexia car, moving en route Namangan-Tashkent, was stopped at the Namangan traffic police post in the Pap district.
When inspecting the car in the presence of attesting witnesses, it was found that the passenger, a resident of Tashkent (born in 1989), had 2,237 pieces of Regapen, 400 units of Cellophane and 300 units of Tropicamide.
It turned out that the seized substances, transported by a citizen of Kyrgyzstan across the state border, bypassing the territory of the Uchkurgan district, were planned to be sold in Tashkent.
Currently, criminal cases have been initiated on all facts under the relevant Articles of the Criminal Code. An investigation is underway.
