Security service officers in Namangan stopped a Nexia car and found 944 grams of hashish in a plastic bag carried by a passenger.[1] The passenger was a man previously convicted of a drug-trafficking offence.[1] A pre-investigation check found he had bought the drugs for $9,900 from a Namangan-based dealer, who was detained in a security operation.[1] At the dealer’s arrest officers seized $9,200 and 18.4 million Uzbek som.[1]

In a later stage of the operation officers stopped a Lacetti carrying two Andijan region residents who had been supplying the detained men and seized 9 kg 801 grams of hashish from it.[1] In Tashkent region officers detained a local man at the moment he collected 977 grams of hashish that drug couriers had earlier hidden as a stash in Bekabad.[1] The State Security Service put the two seizures in Namangan region and the Tashkent region find at almost 12 kg of hashish in total.[1]

Criminal cases were opened over both, and investigative actions were under way.[1]

Officers of the State Security Service, the Interior Ministry and the customs service ran a joint multi-stage operation that intercepted attempts to distribute a large consignment of drugs illegally brought into Uzbekistan from a neighbouring state.[2] The two operations together yielded 11 kilograms 722 grams of hashish, the figure the report treats as its total.[2] The Bekabad suspect was born in 1985, the two Andijan residents in 1987 and 1998, and the Namangan dealer who sold the 944 grams was born in 1982.[2] The Nexia passenger was born in 1978.[2]