Officers of Kazakhstan Interior Ministry’s Transport Police Department detained a 39-year-old conductor.[1] The conductor worked on the Turkestan–Pavlodar passenger train.[1] Officers searching his flat seized a large batch of hashish.[1]

The seized batch weighed more than 5 kilograms in total.[1] The department’s press service said preliminary data put the black-market worth of the seized drugs at more than 18 million tenge.[1] Officers later traced the alleged supplier, a 33-year-old native of Zhambyl region.[1]

The supplier allegedly handed the prohibited substances to the conductor for a monetary reward.[1] A criminal case was opened under Article 297 of Kazakhstan’s criminal code, covering illicit manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport for sale, transfer or sale of narcotics.[1] Investigators are establishing all the details of the crime and checking whether other people are involved in the drug trafficking.[1]