Nine held in Tajikistan as 22 kg of marijuana seized in a week
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry registered eight drug-trafficking crimes in the week from 28 November to 5 December 2005 and took about 22 kg of marijuana out of circulation, alongside more than 7.6 kg of heroin. Nine Tajik citizens, three of them women, were detained over the week's cases.
Nine citizens of Tajikistan were detained in connection with the
drug-trafficking crimes the Interior Ministry recorded that week.[1]Three of
the nine people detained were women.[1]The ministry recorded eight crimes
connected with illegal drug trafficking between 28 November and 5 December 2005.[1]
Its press centre said officers had taken about 30 kg of drugs out of illegal
circulation over that period.[1]The haul was broken down as more than 7.6 kg
of heroin and about 22 kg of marijuana.[1]Only the marijuana portion of about
22 kg is counted as cannabis here; the heroin and the combined 30 kg total are
not.[1]
The breakdown was given to the Asia-Plus news agency by the Interior Ministry’s
press centre, which reported from Dushanbe.[1]The ministry presented the
figures as a weekly national result for Tajikistan, not a single district case.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
9
Cannabis
22 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Asia-Plusasiaplus.newsRUВ Таджикистане из незаконного оборота за минувшую неделю изъято около 30 кг наркотиков
Open questions the AI reported
Only one accessible source for this 2005 weekly tally was found; a Russian-language search for a second account could not be completed.
All weights were published as approximate — about 30 kg in total, more than 7.6 kg of heroin and about 22 kg of marijuana — so no exact laboratory weight can be recorded.
The nine detentions cover all eight drug cases for the week, including the heroin cases, and cannot be separated into cannabis-only detentions.
No names, charges, places within Tajikistan or court outcomes for the nine detainees were published.
The incident date uses the end of the stated week, 5 December 2005; the tally was published on 6 December 2005.
The head of Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency said about 2,742 kg of narcotics were seized along the border with Afghanistan in 2025, and the authorities said trafficking from Afghanistan had risen by nearly half over 2024.
Tajik officers detained a suspected transnational-group courier in the Panjob border zone of Hamadoni district and seized drugs from the boot of his Opel car. Forensic tests put the cannabis part at 79.722 kg of hashish within a 90.557 kg mixed haul, and a criminal case was opened.
Tajikistan's security service and border troops stopped a drug consignment at the Panjob outpost in Mir Said Ali Hamadoni district and detained five people, four Tajik citizens and one Afghan. The forensic department put the haul at 148 kg 129 g of hashish and 30 kg 333 g of opium, and criminal cases were opened.
Police stopped three men transporting 16 kg of hashish and opium into Dushanbe and opened a case under part 4 of Article 200, the especially-large supply offence. The men were held in custody while police looked for their supply chain. The offence carries 12–20 years in prison.
