Tajik police seize over 104 kg of hashish and 13 kg of marijuana in a day
Interior Ministry officers stopped a car in Dushanbe on 25 May 2011 and took more than 45 kg of hashish, then traced the batch to a second suspect. In the same day officers seized more than 73 kg of narcotics in Sughd region, including 40.5 kg of hashish in Chkalovsk, and detained a woman near the capital with 3 kg of heroin.
🇹🇯 Dushanbe, with further seizures in Sughd region at Chkalovsk, Bobojon Ghafurov district and Qairoqqum, Tajikistan
Interior Ministry officers stopped an Opel Vectra driven by a 39-year-old man
identified only as M.B. in Dushanbe on 25 May 2011 on suspicion of drug
trafficking.[1]A search of the car found and removed more than 45 kg of
hashish.[1]Investigators said the driver had bought the batch from a
32-year-old man identified only as A.K.[1]
On the same day officers seized more than 73 kg of narcotics in the northern
Sughd region.[2]That total included 40.5 kg of hashish seized in Chkalovsk.[1]Officers seized more than 10 kg of hashish in Bobojon Ghafurov district.[1]In Qairoqqum they seized more than 9 kg of hashish and 13.4 kg of
marijuana.[1]Near the capital officers detained a 45-year-old woman from
Qurghon Teppa in Khatlon province with 3 kg of heroin, a separate find counted
in the ministry’s overall total.[2]
The Interior Ministry said its officers took more than 120 kg of narcotics
nationwide in the preceding 24 hours.[1]Criminal cases were opened over all
the finds and the detainees were placed in custody.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Sughd hashish lots are given as 'more than 10 kg' and 'more than 9 kg', so the 117.9 kg cannabis total sums exact and minimum figures and is a floor, not a measured total.
The ministry's 120 kg figure covers all drugs, including 3 kg of heroin, and is not attributed to cannabis here.
The article does not say whether A.K., named as the supplier of the Dushanbe batch, was detained or charged; only two detentions are clearly stated.
No arrest count or location was given for the Sughd and Qairoqqum seizures, and the article does not say where in those places the hashish was found.
The two Dushanbe suspects are identified only by the initials M.B., 39, and A.K., 32.
The article does not say whether the 13.4 kg of marijuana in Qairoqqum was loose cannabis or plants.
No court outcome was reported; the article says only that criminal cases were opened and the detainees held in custody.
Both accounts are Asia-Plus reports of the same Interior Ministry statement, not independent reporting.
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.
