Officers stopped three vehicles travelling between Uzbek regions and found drugs on the men inside, in three separate cases reported by the State Security Service.[1]

In Toprakkala district, Khorezm region, security service, interior ministry and customs officers stopped a Lacetti car on the Surkhandarya–Khorezm route and found 490 g of opium with a passenger from Angor district born in 1960, who had twice served sentences for drug offences.[1] Investigators said the opium had been smuggled in from a neighbouring state and was meant for sale in Khorezm region, the security service said.[1]

In the second case, a check of a passenger in an Onix car on the Tashkent–Khorezm route found 119 g of hashish; the man was born in 1968 and lives in Urgench.[1] The third case was in Akaltyn district, Syrdarya region, where security service officers for Jizzakh region and regional interior ministry officers stopped a Lacetti on the Syrdarya–Jizzakh route.[1] The driver, a Jizzakh resident born in 1974 previously convicted of a drug offence, had 16 g of opium hidden in his shoe, which officers seized.[1]

Criminal cases were opened against all three detained men and investigative measures were under way, the security service said.[1] The driver, a Jizzakh resident born in 1974 previously convicted of a drug offence, had 16 g of opium hidden in his shoe, which officers seized.[2]