Pubdate: Sun, 08 Jul 2001
Source: Times of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Copyright: 2001 The Times of Central Asia
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TAJIK POLICE SEIZE 5 KG OF HEROIN

DUSHANBE. Tajikistan's police have seized some 5 kg of heroin to be 
smuggled to Russia, police spokesman Fayzullo Gadoyev told ITAR-TASS on 
Saturday [7 July].

According to him, police found the drugs in a car owned by a Dushanbe 
resident who was about to carry the heroin to the Sogdiyan Region in the 
north of the republic and then to Russia either by plane or by car.

Drug dealers have a particularly wide net in northern Tajikistan 
neighbouring on Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Gadoyev said.
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