Police in Akmola Region reported seizing 188 kg of cannabis-group substances during the 2026 Qarasora operation, alongside 142 kg of synthetic drugs.[1] The campaign in the region ran from 1 June to 30 October 2026 under the name Qarasora, the interior ministry’s annual anti-cannabis drive.[1] The total of more than 331 kg of drugs seized compares with 117 kg in 2025, the police said.[2]

Officers recorded 135 drug offences, including 49 sales, 10 cases of cultivating drug-bearing plants and four of storing drugs on an especially large scale.[1] Police also worked on finding and destroying wild cannabis, issuing 106 orders to destroy drug-bearing plants and drawing up 16 administrative protocols where those orders were not carried out.[1] They shut a synthetic-drug laboratory in Tselinograd district and detained two Astana residents there with about 10 kg of psychotropic substances, which are excluded from the cannabis figures.[1] Eighteen people accused of distributing drugs through hidden stashes were detained during the operation.[3] Police said they blocked six supply channels into the region and seized more than 14 kg of drugs along them; the regional newspaper put that haul at 14.4 kg.[2]

Akmola’s anti-drug unit chief Darkhan Dosanov presented the results at a briefing of the regional communications service.[2] Police also reported a drug-smuggling case in which a resident of Astrakhan district bought drugs in Thailand and had them sent across the customs border, and said information on 550 bank cards and accounts worth 36.3 million tenge was entered in the Antifraud system.[2]