Online shop administrator held in Tashkent with 9.33 kg of hashish
Interior Ministry officers and the State Security Service detained a 37-year-old who ran an online drug shop in Tashkent, seizing 9.33 kg of hashish and 0.545 kg of methamphetamine from his car and home. The ministry put the combined 9.875 kg at 64,817 doses and said offences of this scale carry up to 20 years in prison.
Interior Ministry officers working with the State Security Service shut down an
online drug shop in Tashkent and seized nearly 10 kilograms of drugs, the
ministry said.[1][2]The detained man was the shop’s 37-year-old administrator
and curator, a native of Tashkent.[1]The ministry said he had earlier been
convicted under Articles 164 and 278 of Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code.[3]
Officers searching his car and home found 9.33 kilograms of hashish and 0.545
kilograms of methamphetamine, which the ministry said were kept for later sale.[1][2]The ministry put the combined 9.875 kilograms at 64,817 single doses, about
0.15 grams each.[1]
The ministry said drug offences of this scale carry up to 20 years in prison
under Uzbek law.[1]The operation fell under Kora-Dori 2026, a nationwide
preventive campaign the ministry said was continuing at an intensified pace.[3]
The Interior Ministry’s own channel announced the detention of the online shop’s curator with 10 kilograms of hashish and methamphetamine on 27 August.[4]Darakchi.uz, citing the ministry, reported that the detention was carried out under Kora-Dori 2026, the national preventive operation.[5]A criminal case was opened against the group under part 5 of article 273 of the Criminal Code, which covers unlawful acts with drugs and psychotropic substances for sale and their sale.[5]Darakchi.uz described the suspect as a Tashkent native born in 1989, previously convicted of robbery and organising gambling.[5]
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Darakchi.uzdarakchi.uzRUВ Ташкенте задержали администратора интернет-наркомагазина с 9,3 кг гашиша
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The article gives no separate date for the detention and searches; 28 August 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The 64,817 single doses and 9.875 kg total cover hashish and methamphetamine together, so no cannabis-only dose count is recorded.
No street value or fine for the hashish was published.
The suspect's name, the shop's name and its customer numbers were not published.
No charge sheet or court outcome was reported; the ministry only noted that such offences carry up to 20 years in prison.
No agency statement, Uzbek-language report or independent outlet account of this operation could be opened; the English text is the same outlet's translation of the Russian report.
Podrobno.uz dates the detention to 27 August 2026, when the ministry's Telegram channel published its statement, while UzDaily.uz and Darakchi.uz published on 28 August 2026.
Podrobno.uz and UzDaily.uz describe the man as previously convicted under articles 164 and 278, while Darakchi.uz gives the categories as robbery and organising gambling, so only the categories are recorded.
The 64,817 doses cover hashish and methamphetamine together, so no cannabis-only dose count is recorded.
No street value, fine, trial date or sentence was reported for the hashish; part 5 of article 273 carries up to 20 years but no court outcome is known.
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В Ташкенте с 10 кг гашиша и метамфетамина задержан куратор интернет-наркомагазина (IIV | Rasmiy kanal (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan)) could not be opened again to check its quotations (the browser-rendered page has almost no readable article text (it may require a login, show an access challenge, or contain only media); archived fallback unavailable (the browser-rendered page has almost no readable article text (it may require a login, show an access challenge, or contain only media)). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it.
Officers seized 545 grams of hashish in Gulistan and 2.071 kg of marijuana in Turtkul district during multi-agency operations reported on 11 November 2026. One man was detained in the Karakalpakstan episode and criminal cases were opened over the wider four-region roundup.
Interior Ministry officers stopped a drug network in Tashkent's Yangihayot and Yashnabad districts and continued the raids in Kokand, seizing 55 grams, 430 grams and 1 kilogram of hashish. A criminal case was opened for dealing; the number of people held in Kokand was not stated.
Officers of the Interior Ministry and the State Security Service broke up a drug-selling network in Tashkent and Tashkent Region and detained five people, including a married couple caught with 50 packs of hashish. The operations seized 550 grams of hashish, 100 grams of mephedrone and two kilograms of opium extract, which the ministry described as about 26,300 single doses of drugs.
Officers detained a man in Altyaryk District, Ferghana Region, alleging he tried to sell 500 grams of hashish for US$4,000 to an undercover buyer. Forensic testing confirmed the substance was hashish, and a criminal case was opened as investigations continue.
