Uzbekistan’s State Security Service reported cases involving illegal drug trafficking.[1] At a traffic-police post, officers stopped a Cobalt travelling from Karshi to Tashkent and checked the hand luggage of a 60-year-old passenger from Bulakbashi district, Andijan region.[1] The search found five bundles holding 5 kg 32 g of hashish.[1]

In a second case, a 52-year-old resident of Gijduvan district, Bukhara region, was growing 33 cannabis bushes on his household plot.[1] At the same address officers seized 7 kg 79 g of marijuana.[1]

In a third raid in Baghdad district, Fergana region, officers stopped a Lacetti travelling from Andijan to Kokand and found 1,200 units of the potent drug Tropicamide in bags belonging to two passengers from Kokand.[1] An accomplice following them in a Spark was detained at the same time.[1] Two more people were later detained, with 345 units of Tropicamide and 15 units of Regapen seized as evidence.[1] Investigators said those suspects were bringing the potent drugs from Kyrgyzstan by bypass roads for further sale.[1] Criminal cases were opened over the detected facts and investigations are continuing.[1]