Foreigner detained in Kyrgyzstan when trying to sell hashish

15:26, 08 июня 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Ruslan KHARIZOV

A foreign citizen was detained in Kyrgyzstan while trying to sell drugs on a large scale. Press center of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) reported.

According to the state committee, the man was detained when trying to sell 2.98 kilograms of hashish within the framework of the initiated criminal case under article 282 «Illegal manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues for the purpose of sale» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The suspect was placed in the pre-trial detention center of the SCNS.