Police in Bishkek’s Sverdlovsky district detained a man found carrying cannabis in a quantity the city interior department classified as especially large.[1] Plainclothes officers had received information that a man was collecting, storing and distributing drugs around the junction of Zhibek Zholu avenue and Kalinin street.[1]

On Kalinin and Ozernaya streets, in the Vostok residential area, officers stopped a KIA Picanto, whose driver, identified only as A.A., handed over a white bag of plant material with a characteristic smell.[2] The seized material weighed 2 kilograms 14 grams.[1] A preliminary forensic chemical examination identified the substance as cannabis, that is marijuana, listed among prohibited substances.[2]

The Sverdlovsky district investigation service opened a criminal case under article 283 of Kyrgyzstan’s Criminal Code, which covers unlawful manufacture of drugs and psychotropic substances without intent to sell.[1] The driver, born in 2000, was held in the temporary detention centre of Bishkek’s main interior department.[2] Investigators said further investigative actions were continuing.[1]

The city interior department cited illegal drug circulation as a serious crime carrying strict criminal liability and urged the public to report drug storage, manufacture or sale to the nearest police station or on 102.[2] The accounts of the case were published by the news site 24.kg and Caravan-Info on 23 January 2026, and the 24.kg text was republished by the aggregator FOR.kg the same day.[3]