10 detained in Tajikistan as 66 kg hashish seized in Dushanbe and Sughd
Tajik security officers detained 10 suspected large-scale drug traffickers, including five Interior Ministry, security service and border troops personnel, in operations in Dushanbe and Sughd region. Officers seized about 140 kg of drugs including 66 kg of hashish, the cannabis component recorded here, alongside 45 kg of heroin.
Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (GKNB), the country’s
security service, reported that 10 people had been detained on suspicion of
especially large-scale drug trafficking, including five officers of the Interior
Ministry, the security committee and the border troops.[1]Several servicemen
of the republic’s border troops were detained for alleged involvement in the
trafficking after the committee said in its official statement that they had
helped move the drugs.[1]A second consignment was seized in Dushanbe, where
Interior Ministry personnel were detained on suspicion of drug dealing.[1]
The GKNB said several anti-trafficking operations in Dushanbe and Sughd region
recovered about 140 kg of drugs in total, including 45 kg of heroin and 66 kg of
hashish, with only the hashish counted as cannabis here.[1]In Sughd region,
officers found the drugs inside a passenger car.[1]
Operatives established that the heroin, described as of Afghan origin, had been
carried across the Tajik-Afghan border in Panj district of Khatlon region.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate date for the operations and detentions, so 15 February 2013, the publication date, is used as the incident date.
Only 66 kg of hashish is recorded as cannabis; the 45 kg of heroin and the combined about 140 kg total are excluded from cannabis figures.
The report does not say how the hashish and heroin were divided between Dushanbe, Sughd region and the passenger car.
No names, charges or court outcomes for the 10 detainees were reported.
Only one accessible source for this 2013 event was found after searching in English and Russian, so no independent second outlet corroboration is available.
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry detained nine suspected members of a drug group and seized 24 kg of hashish from a cache in Matchinsky district. The ministry says the Afghan-sourced hashish was meant for onward smuggling abroad and alleges the group moved about 550-600 kg since 2025.
Police in Tajikistan's Asht district detained four people from an alleged transnational group and seized 6.5 kg of hashish. Investigators allege the drugs came from Afghanistan for transit abroad; the detainees remain in pretrial detention while the investigation continues.
Tajik authorities detained seven suspected members of two transnational groups accused of moving Afghan hashish, opium and methamphetamine through Dushanbe and Rasht district for domestic sale and export. The cannabis component is established as hashish in mixed parcels and packets, but only combined drug totals were published, so no cannabis-only weight is recorded.
Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency detained a 21-year-old man in Bokhtar, Khatlon Region, as he met a buyer for 29 kg 560 g of hashish he had brought from the border area of the Jayhun district. A criminal case was opened under the article on drug trafficking in especially large amounts, and officers investigated.
