34 kg of hashish seized from truck on Dushanbe-Khujand road; 3 held
Security officers stopped a KamAZ lorry on the Dushanbe-Khujand highway in February 2011 and found drugs hidden in a built-in compartment, including 34 kg of hashish by the Asia-Plus account. Three alleged traffickers were arrested, and police were still looking for the rest of the group.
Officers of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security stopped a KamAZ
lorry on the Dushanbe-Khujand highway, the main road between the capital and the
northern Sughd region.[1]Radio Ozodi, RFE/RL’s Tajik service, placed the stop
at the Khusheri tract on the same highway and said the lorry had been detained
while a drug group tried to move the drugs.[2]
Officers removed the drugs from a specially built hiding place in the vehicle,
80 kg in all by the Asia-Plus account.[1]Nozirjon Buriev, head of the
committee’s public-relations centre, gave Asia-Plus a breakdown of about 22 of
heroin, 34 kg of hashish and 24 of raw opium, and 34 kg is the cannabis weight
recorded here.[1]Radio Ozodi, citing the same official, reported 22 kg of
heroin, more than 34 kg of raw opium and 23 kg of hashish for the same seizure,
its hashish figure differing from Asia-Plus.[2]
Three alleged traffickers had been arrested over the seizure, and Buriev said
their names were withheld in the interests of the investigation.[1]
He said operations to identify the remaining members of the group were
continuing.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Cannabis
34 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Vehicle
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Asia-Plusasiaplus.newsRUВ Таджикистане изъята крупнейшая в этом году партия наркотиков - Азия-Плюс
The incident date of 24 February 2011 is inferred from Asia-Plus reporting on 25 February that the lorry was stopped the day before; Radio Ozodi gives no separate incident date.
The two accounts disagree on the hashish weight: Asia-Plus says 34 kg, and Radio Ozodi 23 kg; the report uses the Asia-Plus figure of 34 kg.
The heroin and raw-opium weights were published without units in Asia-Plus (about 22 and 24), so they are repeated as stated and excluded from cannabis figures.
The published 80 kg total covers heroin, hashish and raw opium together and is excluded from kg_seized; only the hashish weight is recorded as cannabis.
Radio Ozodi states its figures only in a single sentence and does not say how many people were arrested.
No charges, court outcome or identities of the three arrested people were reported, and the investigation was described as continuing.
The exact point on the highway between Dushanbe and Sughd is only given as the Khusheri tract, so coordinates use Dushanbe with region precision.
The head of Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency said about 2,742 kg of narcotics were seized along the border with Afghanistan in 2025, and the authorities said trafficking from Afghanistan had risen by nearly half over 2024.
Tajik officers detained a suspected transnational-group courier in the Panjob border zone of Hamadoni district and seized drugs from the boot of his Opel car. Forensic tests put the cannabis part at 79.722 kg of hashish within a 90.557 kg mixed haul, and a criminal case was opened.
Tajikistan's security service and border troops stopped a drug consignment at the Panjob outpost in Mir Said Ali Hamadoni district and detained five people, four Tajik citizens and one Afghan. The forensic department put the haul at 148 kg 129 g of hashish and 30 kg 333 g of opium, and criminal cases were opened.
Police stopped three men transporting 16 kg of hashish and opium into Dushanbe and opened a case under part 4 of Article 200, the especially-large supply offence. The men were held in custody while police looked for their supply chain. The offence carries 12–20 years in prison.
