DUSHANBE. June 6 (Interfax) - Tajik Customs Service personnel have confiscated 123 kilograms of hashish and heroin from a cache hidden inside a KamAZ truck that was stopped near the country's capital Dushanbe, the Customs Service said in a press release on Wednesday.
"The suspected "owner" of the drugs, a citizen of Tajikistan, planned to smuggle this drug haul out of Gorny Badakhshan in the Sogd region of the republic through the city of Dushanbe," the service said.
"The seized drugs include over 120 kilograms of hashish and some three kilograms of heroin," it said.
The KamAz driver was detained and the "owner" of the drug haul was declared wanted. A criminal investigation was started.
Tajik law enforcement agencies confiscated 2,061 kilograms of drugs in the first quarter of 2013, a 76.5% rise from the same period the year before.
Tajikistan, which shares a 1,344-kilometer border with Afghanistan, acts as a key route for smuggling Afghan drugs to Russia and countries of Eastern and Western Europe.