85 kg of hashish seized from an Opel in Kumsangir district
Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency stopped an Opel Astra driven by a 52-year-old Tajik citizen in Kumsangir district of Khatlon region and seized 85 kg of hashish, pressed into 122 book-shaped tablets. The agency said the hashish was bound for CIS countries from Afghanistan and opened a criminal case under article 200 part 4 of the Criminal Code.
Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency, the anti-drug agency under the president,
carried out a multi-stage operation to seize a very large party of narcotics
from illegal circulation.[1]In Kumsangir district of Khatlon region, agents
stopped an Opel Astra driven by a 52-year-old Tajik citizen, previously not
convicted and unemployed, suspected of drug smuggling.[1]
Searching the car, officers found and seized 122 pressed tablets in the shape of
books, containing a brown substance with a distinctive smell.[1]The agency’s
forensic examination found the seized substances to be hashish weighing 85 kg,
each tablet stamped and marked in Arabic script, which the source said showed
the drug’s high quality.[1]
The agency said the hashish was meant to be smuggled from Afghanistan through
Tajikistan to CIS countries.[1]A criminal case was opened under article 200
part 4 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan, which covers illegal trafficking of
narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for sale in especially large
quantities.[1]The drug trafficker was detained and investigative steps were
under way to establish other people involved in the case.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
85 kg
Agency
Tajikistan Drug Control Agency (AKN)
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Hashish (85 kg)
Activity
Smuggling, Sale
Setting
Vehicle
Charge
illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for sale in especially large quantities (article 200 part 4 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan)
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Khatlon
Date
Publication date
Sources
Asia-Plusasiaplus.newsRUНаркополицейские Таджикистана конфисковали крупную партию гашиша
Open questions the AI reported
No separate date for the seizure is given; 10 October 2012 is the Asia-Plus publication date and stands in for the incident date.
The destination is given only as CIS countries, so the end market and any crossing point are not identified.
No court outcome, plea or measure of restraint was reported; the case was at the investigation stage when published.
No other people involved had been established when the accounts were published, beyond the one detained driver.
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.
