Uzbekistan’s State Security Service reported that operational measures in four regions seized more than 3.6 kg of drugs, including hashish, synthetic spice, opium and marijuana.[1][2] In Gulistan, Syrdarya-region State Security Service officers with internal-affairs and customs officers searched the rented accommodation of a man and woman born in 1996 and 1998.[1][3] The agency said the pair worked as couriers and packagers for an online drug-selling store.[1][4] In Turtkul district, Karakalpakstan, officers detained a local resident born in 1972 after a bag in his possession was found to contain 471 grams of marijuana.[1][5][4]
Officers searching the Gulistan flat found 337 grams of hashish concealed inside a heating appliance.[1][2][3][4] They found another 208 grams of hashish divided into 65 small wraps at a second rented address the suspects used as a warehouse, bringing the total hashish seized in Gulistan to 545 grams.[1][2][3][4] Officers checked the car of the detained man’s alleged accomplice, born in 1964 and previously convicted, finding another 425 grams of marijuana.[1][5][4] A search of that accomplice’s house turned up 97 matchboxes containing marijuana weighing a total of 1 kg 175 grams.[1][2][3][4]
Criminal cases were opened over all four episodes and investigative actions are continuing.[1][2][3][4] The same announcement reported 562 grams of synthetic spice seized in Karmana district, Navoi region, which is excluded from the cannabis figures here.[1]
