Four detained in Tajikistan as 1.38 kg of hashish is seized in Kulob driver's car
Tajik police detained three men in Vose district and a Kulob driver whose Opel Astra carried 1 kg 377 grams of hashish, the cannabis component of a case the Interior Ministry put at more than 15 kg of drugs. The largest find was 13 kg 764 grams of heroin in a sports bag; criminal cases were opened and investigations continued.
Tajik police detained three men during an operation in Vose district in the
southern Khatlon Region on suspicion of illegally storing drugs.[1]The three
were Sharifov Sheravgan, born 1965 and a resident of Vose district, Nazriyev
Rustam, born 1981 and a resident of Dushanbe, and Kurbonov Bakhtiyor, born 1973
and a resident of Farkhor district.[1]A body search of a sports bag belonging
to Sharifov turned up 13 kg764 grams of heroin, a strong narcotic.[1]The
Interior Ministry of Tajikistan published the account on its official website,
as cited by the news agency Asia-Plus.[1]
In a separate operation in Kurgan-Tyube, officers searched an Opel Astra
belonging to Saidkarim Khayotov, born 1959 and a resident of Kulob, and found 1
kg377 grams of hashish, the cannabis component recorded here.[1]The seized
drugs came to more than 15 kg in all, a combined total that mixes the heroin and
the hashish.[1]Criminal cases were opened on these facts and an investigation
was under way, with no court outcome reported.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Cannabis
1.377 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Азия-Плюсasiaplus.newsRUСотрудники милиции изъяли на юге Таджикистане свыше 15 кг наркотиков
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the operations; 24 March 2014 is its own publication date and is used as the incident date.
The 15 kg total is a combined figure for the heroin and hashish and cannot be separated into cannabis and other substances, so only the 1.377 kg hashish weight is recorded.
The article presents the Vose district arrests and the Kurgan-Tyube car search as two operations; it does not say whether they are connected.
No court outcome, charge specifics or case numbers were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found; searches for a second report or the Interior Ministry statement itself returned nothing openable.
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Police in Tajikistan's Asht district detained four people from an alleged transnational group and seized 6.5 kg of hashish. Investigators allege the drugs came from Afghanistan for transit abroad; the detainees remain in pretrial detention while the investigation continues.
Tajik authorities detained seven suspected members of two transnational groups accused of moving Afghan hashish, opium and methamphetamine through Dushanbe and Rasht district for domestic sale and export. The cannabis component is established as hashish in mixed parcels and packets, but only combined drug totals were published, so no cannabis-only weight is recorded.
Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency detained a 21-year-old man in Bokhtar, Khatlon Region, as he met a buyer for 29 kg 560 g of hashish he had brought from the border area of the Jayhun district. A criminal case was opened under the article on drug trafficking in especially large amounts, and officers investigated.
