339 face cases in second Qoradori sweep with hashish in haul
Uzbekistan's security and interior agencies opened 269 criminal cases against 339 people during the 5-7 February 2025 second stage of Operation Qoradori. Hashish was listed among 28.8 kg of mixed narcotics seized alongside heroin, opium and synthetics, with no separate cannabis weight given.
Uzbekistan’s State Security Service and Interior Ministry ran the nationwide
second stage of Operation Qoradori, translated as Black Poppy, on 5-7 February
2025.[1]Authorities opened 269 criminal cases against 339 people and detained
53 wanted people.[1]
Authorities said the stage disrupted the sale of 28.8 kg of narcotics, listed as
heroin, opium, hashish and synthetic substances, alongside 9421 potent and
psychotropic tablets.[1]Authorities also reported finding 18 illegal firearms
and 126 bladed weapons.[1]Kun.uz corroborated the same second-stage totals of
about 29 kg of mixed narcotics with the same four substance categories, 9421
tablets, and 18 firearms and 126 bladed weapons.[2]
In one episode, officers acting on a Telegram tip about a 1 kg synthetic-drug
dead drop in Yukorichirchik district detained two suspects as they retrieved it.[1]A search of one suspect’s house in Mirabad district found another 200 g of
synthetic drug plus electronic scales, tape and packaging for dead drops.[1]
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Press-service photograph accompanying the second-stage Operation Qoradori results. Photo: Press Service of the State Security Service.Photo details
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The 28.8 kg total mixes heroin, opium, hashish and synthetic substances with no separate hashish weight, so no cannabis kilograms are recorded.
The 1 kg Yukorichirchik dead drop and 200 g Mirabad find were explicitly synthetic drugs, so their weights are not counted as cannabis.
Kun.uz says operational and preventive measures were conducted with 1401 people, while other accounts describe 1401 people detained; only the 53 wanted detentions are counted as arrests.
The reports also mention 119 administrative penalties, 656 preventive talks, 640 special measures and seized weapons and tablets without clarifying overlap with the 339 people facing criminal cases.
The incident date is entered as 7 February, the last day of the 5-7 February operation; both articles were published on 10 February 2025.
The companion Oriat morality and health checks, prostitution, robbery and pistol episodes in the same articles are separate enforcement matters left out of this cannabis-related account.
The text gives a weight ("28.8 kg") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
Customs, State Security Service and police officers found 2 kilograms 875 grams of marijuana buried beneath the foundation of a home in Shofirkon district, Bukhara region. Customs opened a criminal case, and investigators are still working to identify the drug's source and anyone else involved in supplying it.
Officers in Namangan region seized 70 grams of hashish from the driver of a Nexia during a joint police and security-service operation. A criminal case on illegal drug trafficking was opened and the investigation continues.
State Security Service and Tashkent police searched two containers on a leased farm plot in Qibray around 19 October 2026, seizing 7 kg of dry marijuana kept for sale plus an IZH-38 pneumatic weapon and three cartridges; the previously convicted keeper, born 1986, faces a pre-investigation check.
On the evening of 1 October 2026, Uzbek customs at the Ayritom border post found 98 packages hidden under the trailer floor of an empty truck arriving from Afghanistan: 79 held 42.335 kg of hashish and 19 held 10.26 kg of opium, worth about 340,000 doses combined. A joint customs, border, security and police case is underway.
