Zhambyl UBOP officer sentenced over 2 kg hashish stash
Bayzak District Court sentenced a Zhambyl police lieutenant colonel and UBOP operative to seven years, reduced to four years and eight months under amnesty, for keeping more than 2 kg of hashish at his workplace. Officers of the regional National Security Committee department detained him, and the court also stripped him of his rank.
Officers of the Department of the National Security Committee for Zhambyl Region
detained a police lieutenant colonel who served as an operative in the
organised-crime department (UBOP).[1]The Bayzak District Court of Zhambyl
Region found him guilty of unlawful drug trafficking.[1]The court imposed
seven years of imprisonment for the offence.[1]An amnesty reduced that term
by one-third.[1]He is therefore to serve four years and eight months in a
medium-security colony.[1]The court also stripped the officer of his police
rank.[1]The verdict had not yet entered into force.[1]
During a search at his workplace, officers found hashish weighing more than two
kilograms.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Sentenced
1
Cannabis
2 kg
Prison
4 years and 8 months
Cannabis
Hashish (2 kg)
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Region
Zhambyl Region
Date
Publication date
Sources
Orda.kzorda.kzRUЖамбылский опер хранил два килограмма гашиша: суд вынес приговор
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The article gives no separate date for the detention or verdict, so 26 August 2026, the publication date, stands in for the event date.
The exact weight above two kilograms was not specified, so figures record the stated 2 kg minimum.
No second source for this case was found; the verdict had not entered into force and any appeal outcome is unknown.
The page's cover image is credited to freepik as stock art, so no event photo is listed.
The article also mentions a separate detention of a senior UBOP operative in Almaty Region, a different event left out of this report.
A court in Aktobe sentenced a 43-year-old man from the town of Shu to six years in prison for storing and selling marijuana, after he tried to sell 100 kilograms to an undercover KNB officer for 13 million tenge. In court he said he had found the bags beside the Aktobe-Atyrau highway and drove them into the city to pay off debts.
Court No. 2 in Kostanay sentenced 29-year-old Aleksandr Nerush to seven years in a medium-security facility for transporting and storing marijuana with intent to sell. He hid three packets of marijuana inside a punching bag bought in Almaty and carried it to Kostanay.
A specialised court in Uralsk fined a convoy-unit police sergeant 173,000 tenge after a medical check found cannabinoids and he admitted using marijuana. The West Kazakhstan regional court said the ruling had not yet entered into force.
A court in Almaty sentenced a 22-year-old Kazakh citizen to 16 years in prison for smuggling 8.8 kilograms of cannabis extract from Thailand in two suitcases, found after her flight from Bangkok landed at Almaty airport. The court convicted her of smuggling and unlawful drug trafficking on an especially large scale, and the transport prosecutor's office said the verdict had entered into force.
Charged 1Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.8 kgPrison 16 years
