Pubdate: Fri, 16 Apr 1999
Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia)
Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS.

UZBEK CUSTOMS SEIZE RUSSIA-BOUND HEROIN, OPIUM.

TASHKENT, April 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Uzbek customs and the national
security service last Thursday detained a courier with some 128
kilograms of opium and 2  kilograms of heroin, the republican Customs
Committee told Itar-Tass on Friday.

The courier was detained at a customs checkpoint in the Surkhan-Darya
region, the southernmost area of Uzbekistan.

He said his customer was a Russian citizen living in the Far Eastern
town of Ussuriysk.

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