Staff of State Security Services (SGB) and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Home Affairs have found a buffer with an opium weighing more than 80 kg on the border with Tajikistan, a report by the SGB Press Center, RIA Novosti reported.
According to the agency, the buffer was found in the search events operating in Sariasi district.
The report indicates that the total weight of addictive substances detected is 82 kg 478 grams, the report said.
During the surgery, while trying to participate in addictive substances from the buffer, a local resident was detained. During the interrogation, he admitted that with the price of $ 2,000. The opium is expected to deliver the place where drug dealers from Tajikistan will be called.
A criminal case has been opened against a detained person in an article on smuggling. Currently, the personality of drug owners was established.
The northern route is passed through Uzbekistan – one of the largest ways in the world to provide opium and heroin from Afghanistan to Russia, as well as for European countries.
Earlier, Mash Gor Telegram wrote that in Dagestan, an organized criminal group (organized criminal group) of 13 people seized more than 100 kg of banned substances.