10.7 kg hashish and marijuana seized in Tashkent and Karshi; three held
Uzbek security officers detained three men in three separate episodes, seizing 9 kg 829 g of hashish from a man stopped in Tashkent's Yangihayot district and 380 g of hashish plus 492 g of marijuana in a Karshi home. Criminal cases were opened on smuggling and large-scale drug-sale charges, and the suspects were remanded in custody.
🇺🇿 Yangihayot district and Almazar district, Tashkent city; Karshi, Kashkadarya region; Ohangaron district, Tashkent region · Uzbekistan
State Security Service officers in Tashkent’s Yangihayot district stopped a
resident of the city’s Almazar district, born in 1981 and previously convicted
of drug offences.[1]A search of a bag he was carrying, in front of witnesses,
found 9 kg829 g of hashish, seized as evidence.[2]Gazeta.uz rounded the same
Yangihayot find to 9.8 kg of hashish.[1]
State Security Service and internal-affairs officers then searched the home of a
Karshi resident born in 1959 in Kashkadarya region.[1]The house held 380 g of
hashish and 492 g of marijuana, which officers said were brought from a
neighbouring state and kept for sale.[1]
Taken together, the two cannabis finds come to 10.701 kg of hashish and
marijuana, part of a combined 20.2 kg of drugs including opium and synthetics.[2]According to the service, the Ohangaron detainee worked as a stash-keeper
for an online drug shop, taking large consignments from hiding places, splitting
them and delivering them to regions.[1]
Criminal cases were opened over all three episodes under part 2 of article 246,
smuggling, and part 5 of article 273 of the Criminal Code, and the suspects were
remanded in custody.[3]
Photos and video
Photo published with the State Security Service statement on the three seizures in Tashkent city and the Tashkent and Kashkadarya regions; the caption repeats the headline and does not say which episode it shows. Photo: Press service of the State Security Service, via Gazeta.uzPhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Cannabis
10.701 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis; Hashish
Activity
Smuggling, Sale
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Gazeta.uzgazeta.uzRUБолее 20 кг наркотиков изъяли в Ташкенте и Кашкадарьинской области
Xalq so'ziold.xs.uzUZDXX 20 kilogrammdan ortiq narkotik moddalar savdosining oldini oldi
Gazeta.uzgazeta.uzUZТошкент ва Қашқадарё вилоятида 20 кг дан ортиқ наркотик мусодара қилинди
Open questions the AI reported
No separate operation dates were given; 6 February 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
Gazeta.uz gives the Yangihayot hashish as 9.8 kg while the service's statement gives 9 kg 829 g; the precise 9.829 kg figure is used and the 10.701 kg total is built from the service's weights.
The announced 20.2 kg total does not match the itemised weights in any of the versions, so it is reported as the service's overall figure and not used as a cannabis quantity.
One of the three men was held over synthetic Alfa-PVP rather than cannabis; three is the total for the whole announced operation.
The opium in the Karshi house is given as 4.6 kg by Gazeta.uz and 4 kg 652 g by the service, and is excluded from cannabis figures.
No full names were published, only birth years and districts of residence.
No court outcome was reported beyond the criminal cases and remand in custody.
The single published photo, credited to the State Security Service press service, is not established to show any particular one of the three seizures.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ХAVFSIZLIK (State Security Service of Uzbekistan, Telegram): The service's own statement gives the man as holding 4 kg 652 g of opium in the same house.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ХAVFSIZLIK (State Security Service of Uzbekistan, Telegram): In a third case, a 1984-born Tashkent resident was detained near Ohangaron in Tashkent region collecting 4 kg 935 g of the synthetic drug Alfa-PVP left in a field by drug couriers.
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.
