Six held with 3.4 kg of hashish and opium smuggled from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Uzbek security service officers and regional police detained six men in Altyaryk, Margilan, Khodjaabad and Samarkand, seizing 3.4 kg of hashish and 352 grams of opium offered for sale at prices totalling 18,800 dollars. Three groups were selling hashish smuggled from Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan, and one opium seller had a previous drug conviction.
🇺🇿 Altyaryk district, Fergana region, Uzbekistan
Arrested
6
Cannabis
3.787 kg
Agencies
Служба государственной безопасности Республики Узбекистан, Министерство внутренних дел Республики Узбекистан
Uzbek security service officers and police broke up drug trafficking in Fergana,
Andijan and Samarkand regions.[1]
Officers stopped a car in Altyaryk district, Fergana region, with two men
carrying 1.841 kg of hashish that a courier from Tajikistan had smuggled in and
hidden in Pap district, Namangan region.[2]Both had served sentences for
theft and returned to crime after their release, the security service said.[2]
A Margilan man was detained selling 964 grams of hashish brought from Kyrgyzstan
for 8,000 dollars.[2]Two residents of Bulakbashi district were detained in
Khodjaabad district, Andijan region, selling 630 grams of hashish smuggled from
Kyrgyzstan for 5,800 dollars.[2]
In Samarkand, officers detained a previously convicted resident of Taylak
district selling 352 grams of opium brought from Tajikistan for 5,000 dollars.[2]Criminal cases were opened under the relevant articles of Uzbekistan’s
Criminal Code and investigators were still working on all four.[2]
Gazeta.uz said the security service seized almost 4 kg of drugs in all.[1]
Photos and video
Video still from the security service's operation footage published with the report; the photo is credited to the state security service.Photo details
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Neither account gives a date for the detentions; 4 February 2023 is the publication date of the agency report and stands in for the incident date.
The four detections are reported together by the security service but happened in different districts; the place is given as the first case, Altyaryk district, while the others are in Margilan, Khodjaabad district and Samarkand city.
The accounts disagree on the age of the Altyaryk detainee from Khodjaabad district (born 1990 in UzA, born 1969 in Gazeta.uz) and give the first hashish batch as 1.841 kg in UzA and 1.8 kg in Gazeta.uz; the text uses UzA's figures.
No charges, court outcome or official valuation of the seized drugs have been published; all four cases were at the investigation stage.
The photo is a still from a security-service video and is not described as showing any particular seizure.
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.
