Five held as 750 g of hashish seized in Tashkent-Fergana raids
Police detained five people in Tashkent city and Fergana region, including a mother and daughter held in Kokand during a 500-gram hashish handover. Officers also seized 250 grams of hashish from a car engine in Okhangaron district, bringing the weighed cannabis total to 750 grams.
🇺🇿 Tashkent city, Tashkent and Fergana regions · Uzbekistan
Arrested
5
Cannabis
750 g
Value (official estimate)
UZS 47,000,000
Police detained a previously convicted man in Tashkent’s Chilanzar district
during follow-up drug operations.[1]Two men were detained in Fergana region
after obtaining hashish from a woman and her mother.[1]The woman and her
mother were detained in Kokand.[2]A heating-supply employee born in 2004 was
detained in Chirchik while receiving synthetic alpha-PVP meant for distribution
in Tashkent city and region.[2]Criminal cases were opened over all the
episodes under point (a) of part six of Article 273 of the Criminal Code.[2]Investigators are continuing to identify other participants and distribution
channels.[1]
A search of the Chilanzar man’s home found hashish and heroin.[2]Officers
stopped his supplier’s Lacetti at the Chinor post in Okhangaron district and
found 250 grams of hashish hidden in the engine compartment.[2]The Kokand
handover involved 500 grams of hashish.[2]The Fergana buyers had paid 47
million soms for the hashish.[3]Authorities put the combined seizure for the
multi-region operation at about one kilogram of drugs.[1]
The detentions were made during an inquiry into a criminal group involved in
drug trafficking.[2]The operations were carried out jointly by
internal-affairs officers with State Security and customs officers.[3]The
part-six trafficking charge can carry up to 20 years’ imprisonment.[3]
The articles give no separate date for the raids; 30 October 2026 is the publication date of the submitted report and is used as the incident date, while a detailed account was already published on 29 October 2026.
The reported combined total of about one kilogram covers all seized substances including synthetic alpha-PVP and heroin, so it is excluded from cannabis figures; the recorded 0.75 kg sums only the separately weighed 250-gram and 500-gram hashish finds.
No weight was published for the hashish and heroin found in the Chilanzar home, so that amount cannot be recorded.
The arrest total of five covers only the cannabis episodes and excludes the Chirchik synthetic-drug detention; the driver of the Lacetti stopped with 250 grams is not counted as detained because no detention verb was published for him.
The younger Kokand woman's birth year is given as 1998 in one account and 1988 in another, so it is left out here.
The district is spelled Akhangaran in one account and Okhangaron in another; both refer to the same Tashkent-region post.
No charges beyond opened criminal cases and no court outcome were reported; the investigation was still under way.
The same articles mention an earlier separate seizure of almost two kilograms of hashish in Andijan, which is left out of this report.
The submitted page's photo caption does not establish that it shows this seizure and the image could not be viewed in this harness, so no media entry is included.
Only Russian-language sources were opened; no agency statement separate from press-service summaries could be opened directly.
Police in Tashkent shut an underground lab in Chilanzar that baked hashish oil into cookies and marmalade, seizing about 6 kg of hashish and oils described as over 19,200 doses. A 23-year-old alleged online distributor was detained and a large-scale manufacture-and-sale case carrying up to 20 years was opened.
Three hashish distributors detained in Gijduvan district were convicted of drug sale offences and sentenced to prison terms of 5 years 3 months to 5 years 6 months. The court set punishment below the Criminal Code range because of their difficult life circumstances.
Arrested 3Charged 3Prison 5 years 3 months to 5 years 6 months
State Security Service officers and Tashkent police arrested a 33-year-old online drug store courier in Yunusabad district on 28 October 2026, finding 257 g of hashish oil on him and 2.831 kg more at his flat with scales. A criminal case was opened and suppliers are being traced.
State Security Service operations in Khorezm and Namangan regions caught an ex-convict collecting a Russia-sent parcel with 967 g of hashish hidden in 10 chocolate packs in Urganch, and found a 1988-born man growing 423 cannabis plants for sale on his Yangiqorgon plot. Both cases were seized as evidence.
