Truck with smuggled rice detained in Batken region

12:29, 31 марта 2023, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Yuri KOPYTIN

Employees of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan detained a truck with smuggled rice in Batken region. Press center of the state committee reported.

«A Mercedes-Benz truck with the state license plate 40920RA, driven by a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, was stopped at Kadamdzhai-Avtodorozhny checkpoint on March 30. During the inspection, smuggled goods in the form of Uzgen rice with a total weight of 16 tons were found in the truck,» the statement says.

Estimated market cost of the discovered goods is 2 million soms. The investigation is ongoing.