Officers of the counter-narcotics unit of the Kostanay regional police department detained a 47-year-old man in a garage complex in Kostanay on suspicion of storing narcotics on an especially large scale.[1] The detention was carried out as part of the Karasora-2025 operational and preventive campaign.[2] The detained man was a local resident of Kostanay.[2] During a search of the detained man, officers found and seized wraps containing green plant material with a distinctive smell.[1] Police found more of the same substance when they searched the garage where the suspect was staying.[1]

A medical examination found traces of narcotic use in the man’s body.[1] A forensic chemical examination identified the seized substance as hashish with a total weight of about 1 kilogram.[1] The combined weight covered the wraps taken from the man and the substance found in the garage.[2] Police opened a criminal case for storing narcotics on an especially large scale, and further investigative measures were under way.[2]