Driver detained as 29 kg of hashish found in Mercedes in northern Tajikistan
Tajik police detained a 33-year-old driver in the Isfisor jamoat of Bobojonghafurov district on 10 March 2011 and found 29 kg of hashish in the boot of his Mercedes. The Interior Ministry said he had bought the batch with another man to resell it, and a criminal case was opened.
Police in northern Tajikistan stopped a Mercedes in the Isfisor jamoat of
Bobojonghafurov district on 10 March 2011 as part of drug-search operations and
detained its 33-year-old driver, identified only as F.G.[1]A search of the
boot found 29 kg of hashish, which the Interior Ministry said F.G. had bought
together with a citizen identified as S.B. in order to sell it.[1]The
ministry said the driver told officers he had bought the hashish from C.B. to
resell, and a criminal proceedings was opened against the detained men while the
investigation continued.[2]Criminal proceedings were opened in the case and
an investigation was under way.[2]
That seizure of 29 kg was one of three large hashish hauls reported in
Tajikistan within days, after 33 kg was intercepted near Tursunzoda on 9 March
and a further batch was reported in Tursunzoda district on 8 March.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 29 kg figure is given only as a round figure; no laboratory weight was published.
The suspects are identified only by initials, F.G. (33 years old) and S.B., with no full names, residence or charging details given.
The Russian account says F.G. bought the batch with S.B. and the English account says he told officers he had bought it from C.B.; the sources do not establish whether S.B. and C.B. are the same person, and only F.G. is clearly reported as detained.
No court outcome was reported; the articles say only that a criminal case was opened and an investigation was continuing.
The article also reports a separate 33 kg hashish seizure near Tursunzoda on 8–9 March and a Dushanbe heroin seizure on 10 March, both different events left out here, and gives no date for the later prosecution of this case.
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry detained nine suspected members of a drug group and seized 24 kg of hashish from a cache in Matchinsky district. The ministry says the Afghan-sourced hashish was meant for onward smuggling abroad and alleges the group moved about 550-600 kg since 2025.
Police in Tajikistan's Asht district detained four people from an alleged transnational group and seized 6.5 kg of hashish. Investigators allege the drugs came from Afghanistan for transit abroad; the detainees remain in pretrial detention while the investigation continues.
Tajik authorities detained seven suspected members of two transnational groups accused of moving Afghan hashish, opium and methamphetamine through Dushanbe and Rasht district for domestic sale and export. The cannabis component is established as hashish in mixed parcels and packets, but only combined drug totals were published, so no cannabis-only weight is recorded.
Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency detained a 21-year-old man in Bokhtar, Khatlon Region, as he met a buyer for 29 kg 560 g of hashish he had brought from the border area of the Jayhun district. A criminal case was opened under the article on drug trafficking in especially large amounts, and officers investigated.
