Uzbekistan’s State Security Service together with other law enforcement agencies uncovered several hashish trafficking cases in Andijan region.[1] Officers detained two people who were bringing drugs from Kyrgyzstan for sale.[1] In Altinkul district, inspectors found almost 2 kg of hashish in an Equinox driven by a man born in 1988.[1] Investigators said his accomplice, born in 1989 and twice convicted for robbery and drug offences, had bought the hashish from Tajik dealers for 5500 dollars for delivery to Pap district in Namangan region.[1] The Equinox owner had collected the consignment delivered from Tajikistan and was heading to that accomplice.[1]

A Jalakuduk district resident born in 1977 handed 100 grams of hashish to his accomplice, while searches recovered another 586 grams at his home and 19 grams at the accomplice’s home.[1] Officers seized 673 grams of hashish and 42 potent pills from a previously convicted Andijan resident born in 1977 stopped at a traffic-police post in Buston district, and found 14 more Regapen pills at his home.[1] In Andijan city, a search of a rented house used by a twice-convicted resident born in 1969 found 269 grams of hashish and electronic scales, and officers established that he had brought drugs from Kyrgyzstan.[1]

The authorities put the combined hashish seized at more than 3.5 kg, most of it smuggled from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.[1] Criminal cases were opened under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code in all the cases, and investigations were continuing.[1]