Astana woman jailed 16 years for smuggling 4.7 kg cannabis extract
A court in Astana sentenced a 20-year-old woman to 16 years in prison for smuggling 4.7 kg of cannabis extract from Thailand. Officers found two suitcases of extract disguised as sweets and seized them immediately after her arrival at Astana airport.
Police detained a 20-year-old woman at Astana airport after she brought 4.7 kg
of cannabis extract from Thailand disguised as sweets.[1]A court sentenced
her to 16 years’ imprisonment for drug smuggling.[1]The court sentenced the
Astana resident to 16 years in prison.[2]
According to the Main Transport Prosecutor’s Office, she had agreed to carry the
suitcases for a fee.[3]She had brought the two suitcases from Thailand with
the drugs disguised as sweets.[3]The suitcases contained 4.7 kg of cannabis
extract.[3]She brought two suitcases of cannabis extract with a total weight
of 4.7 kg from Thailand for money.[4]Officers found and seized the load
immediately after her arrival in the capital.[3]Two suitcases stuffed with
cannabis extract were seized from the 20-year-old woman at Astana airport.[2]
She had passed the drugs off as sweets.[4]The load was found and seized
immediately after her flight landed at Astana airport.[4]The verdicts in the
case had not yet entered into legal force when reported.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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No separate date for the smuggling or the sentencing was published; 16 October 2026, the date of the detailed reports, is used as the incident date.
The 4.7 kg figure is reported as cannabis extract without laboratory details.
A separate postal smuggling case involving a 39-year-old man sentenced to 8 years was reported alongside this case; its substance is described only as drugs, so it is not counted here.
The wider airport total of 27 cases, 98 kg and 2.5 billion tenge and the separate 17 kg case are not counted as cannabis because the sources do not identify the substance as cannabis.
Whether the woman has appealed is not reported; the verdicts had not entered into force when reported.
A court in Aktobe sentenced a 43-year-old man from the town of Shu to six years in prison for storing and selling marijuana, after he tried to sell 100 kilograms to an undercover KNB officer for 13 million tenge. In court he said he had found the bags beside the Aktobe-Atyrau highway and drove them into the city to pay off debts.
Court No. 2 in Kostanay sentenced 29-year-old Aleksandr Nerush to seven years in a medium-security facility for transporting and storing marijuana with intent to sell. He hid three packets of marijuana inside a punching bag bought in Almaty and carried it to Kostanay.
A specialised court in Uralsk fined a convoy-unit police sergeant 173,000 tenge after a medical check found cannabinoids and he admitted using marijuana. The West Kazakhstan regional court said the ruling had not yet entered into force.
Bayzak District Court sentenced a Zhambyl police lieutenant colonel and UBOP operative to seven years, reduced to four years and eight months under amnesty, for keeping more than 2 kg of hashish at his workplace. Officers of the regional National Security Committee department detained him, and the court also stripped him of his rank.
Arrested 1Sentenced 1Cannabis 2 kgPrison 4 years and 8 months
