Member of international drug gang from Tajikistan arrested in Kyrgyzstan

17:54, 28 апреля 2021, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Yuri KOPYTIN

Employees of the State Service on Drug Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan detected and suppressed an international channel for transit of hard drugs. A batch of highly concentrated Afghan heroin was seized. Press service of the state agency reported.

«Employees of the state agency received information that some man of Asian appearance, aged 30-35, is engaged in transportation and sale of drugs on an especially large scale from Tajikistan to Kazakhstan. A pre-trial investigation was launched into this fact. On April 20, officers caught a 34-year-old active member of an international drug gang, a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan on the territory of Leilek district of Batken region, red-handed while selling drugs,» the State Service on Drug Control reported.

A batch of drugs — 2 kilograms of heroin of Afghan origin — was confiscated from the detainee. The investigation is ongoing.