Afghan arrested in Dushanbe with 5.6 kg of hashish and cannabis
Tajikistan's drug police arrested 35-year-old Afghan citizen Muhammad Said Amriddin in Dushanbe's Ismoili Somoni district with 1.6 kg of hashish, then found four kilograms of cannabis in the flat he rented. Police named the flat's holder, Zoir Beknazarov, and his brother Tolibjon as intended sellers and said both were wanted.
Tajik drug police arrested Muhammad Said Amriddin, a 35-year-old citizen of
Afghanistan, in Dushanbe at the end of the week before 17 April 2006 on
suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking.[1]Officers of the Interior
Ministry department for combating drug trafficking, the drug police, detained
him in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district with 1.6 kilograms of hashish.[1]
A search of the apartment Amriddin was renting found four kilograms of cannabis,
the drug police said.[1]Police said the flat belonged to Zoir Beknazarov, and
that he and his brother Tolibjon intended to sell the drugs in Dushanbe.[1]The Beknazarov brothers were wanted by police at the time of the report.[1]
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The article gives no exact date for the arrest or the apartment search; it says only that this happened at the end of the week before 17 April 2006, so 14 April 2006 is an estimate and the publication date is 17 April 2006.
The hashish and the cannabis found in the flat are reported as separate quantities and the total of 5.6 kg combines them on the assumption that both were seized in the same case.
The report describes four kilograms of the find as cannabis without saying whether it was dried marijuana or another preparation.
No charges, court stage or sentence were reported for Amriddin, and the Beknazarov brothers had not been detained.
Only one source for this event could be found and opened; no second account in English or Russian was located.
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