Nearly 95 kg of hashish found hidden among trees in Qibray field
Customs and security officers seized nearly 95 kg of hashish hidden in four sacks among trees in a Qibray field after an eight-day stakeout. Three people were detained; experts valued the haul at more than $10 million.
🇺🇿 Qibray district, Tashkent region · Uzbekistan
Arrested
3
Cannabis
95 kg
Value (official estimate)
USD 10,000,000
Officers of the Customs Committee’s anti-smuggling department, working with State Security Service officers, found nearly 95 kg of hashish in Qibray district of Tashkent region, committee press secretary Husan Tangriyev told Gazeta.[1][2]
Four farm sacks hidden among trees in a field held 109 packages of hashish.[1][2]Officers kept the area under surveillance for several days to identify anyone coming to collect the drugs.[1]
Eight days later, two people who arrived to collect the narcotics were identified and detained.[1][2]During the investigation, the person who had ordered the drugs hidden there and later collected was also identified and detained; he had previously faced a criminal case opened by the Customs Committee over petrol smuggling.[1]
A criminal case was opened over the large consignment.[1][2]Experts estimated the hashish at 700,000 single doses, and said its black-market value could have exceeded $10 million had it reached end consumers.[1][2]
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Seized hashish packages laid out in the field at night with officers Source: GazetaSacks holding wrapped hashish packages seized in Qibray Source: Gazeta
The English account reprints the Gazeta report rather than reporting independently.
The weight is given only as nearly 95 kg and the exact interception date within the eight-day watch is not stated; 25 September is the publication date.
The detained people were not named and no court outcome is reported.
Officers in Namangan region seized 70 grams of hashish from the driver of a Nexia during a joint police and security-service operation. A criminal case on illegal drug trafficking was opened and the investigation continues.
State Security Service and Tashkent police searched two containers on a leased farm plot in Qibray around 19 October 2026, seizing 7 kg of dry marijuana kept for sale plus an IZH-38 pneumatic weapon and three cartridges; the previously convicted keeper, born 1986, faces a pre-investigation check.
On the evening of 1 October 2026, Uzbek customs at the Ayritom border post found 98 packages hidden under the trailer floor of an empty truck arriving from Afghanistan: 79 held 42.335 kg of hashish and 19 held 10.26 kg of opium, worth about 340,000 doses combined. A joint customs, border, security and police case is underway.
The State Security Service said a man in Shahrisabz had built a greenhouse on a 5.3-hectare plot at his home and was growing 714 cannabis plants for sale; the dried material weighed 201 kg. In a separate case in Tashkent, a previously convicted man was stopped with 1.994 kg of hashish said to have been smuggled from a neighbouring country. Criminal cases were opened in both.
