Officers of the State Security Service with police and customs detained four people in the Fergana and Namangan regions, seizing hashish in three operations.[1] At the Namangan traffic-police post in Pap district, officers stopped a Cobalt travelling from Fergana to Tashkent, driven by a Chirchik resident born in 1995.[2] A search of the car’s boot found and seized 1 kg of hashish.[2] In Chust district in Namangan region, officers stopped and inspected a VAZ-2103 belonging to a previously convicted resident of Yanginamangan district born in 1987 and found 995 grams of hashish in its interior.[2] A witnessed search of the house of a Namangan resident born in 1975 found 648 grams of hashish in the basement.[2] Investigators said the householder had bought that drug for $5,000 from an acquaintance born in 1972 from Yanginamangan district, who was also detained.[2]

The total seized across the operations was 2.643 kg of substance described as hashish.[2] The operations were conducted jointly by regional State Security Service departments with internal-affairs and customs officers.[1] Criminal cases were opened over all the episodes and investigations were continuing.[2]