About 28 kg of cannabis seized in Tajikistan, 4-12 February
Police in Tajikistan seized about 28 kg of cannabis from 4 to 12 February 2006, including over 23 kg found in Hamadoni district and about 5 kg found in a car in Dushanbe. The cannabis was part of wider seizures of over 50 kg of drugs in 18 cases, with the owner of the Hamadoni cache still being sought.
Police were conducting operational measures to establish the owner of the cache
found in Hamadoni district.[1]About 5 kg of cannabis was found on the night
from Saturday to Sunday in the cabin of a car belonging to Dushanbe resident
Yusufali Gadoev.[1]
The largest part of the weekend seizures was made on 11 February in the border
Hamadoni district of Khatlon region.[1]Over that weekend, law-enforcement
officers in the republic seized over 33 kg of drugs.[1]During a patrol round
in a village of the Ittifok dehkan farm, militia officers found more than 28 kg
of drugs.[1]Of that Hamadoni cache, over 23 kg was cannabis and about 5 kg
was heroin.[1]From 4 to 12 February, officers recorded 18 drug-trafficking
cases in Tajikistan and seized over 50 kg of drugs in total, including 13 kg of
heroin.[1]
The information came from UBNON, the Interior Ministry’s drug-enforcement
department.[1]Hamadoni is a border district in Khatlon region.[1]Ittifok
is a dehkan farm, in one of whose villages the cache was found during the
patrol.[1]Only the separately stated cannabis weights are counted as cannabis
here, and the combined drug totals and heroin weights are left out.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The cannabis total of about 28 kg is the sum of over 23 kg reported in Hamadoni district and about 5 kg reported in Dushanbe, so the recorded 28 kg is approximate.
Combined drug totals of over 33 kg for the weekend, more than 28 kg in Hamadoni and over 50 kg for 4 to 12 February, and heroin weights of about 5 kg and 13 kg, are excluded from cannabis figures.
The incident date of 12 February 2006 is the end of the reported 4 to 12 February period; the Hamadoni seizure was dated 11 February and the Dushanbe car find was dated to the night from Saturday to Sunday.
No arrests, charges or court outcomes were reported; officers were still working to establish the owner of the Hamadoni cache and no detention was stated for Yusufali Gadoev.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English and Russian, so no independent second account is cited.
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.
