OSH. Nov 16 (Interfax) - A drug dealing group involving two officers of the law has been caught in southern Kyrgyzstan, a source in the State Drug Control Service told Interfax on Monday.
"Employees of the State Drug Control Service and the State Committee for National Security have detained officers of the law trying to sell about eight kilograms of flour as heroin. One of the detainees is a citizen of Uzbekistan," he said.
According to the preliminary operative information, the detainees were dealing large quantities of drugs for a long time. "This criminal group created a steady channel for the transportation and distribution of Afghan heroin and provided regular illegal transportation of drugs from southern regions of the republic and drug distribution in the city of Bishkek and in the Chui region," the representative of the State Drug Control Service said.
According to the service, 'a test purchase' of 0.2 grams of heroin was made in the city of Kara-Balt in the northern Chui region on November 15. The seller was paid $1,000 upfront for the future delivery of ten kilograms of heroin of the same quality as the test sample. "Three citizens of Kyrgyzstan and one of Uzbekistan were apprehended later on the same day selling a white powder-like friable substance as 10 kilograms of 'heroin' for $80,000," the source said.
The two Kyrgyz citizens were identified as officers of the State Drug Control Service and the police.
Tests showed that the substance sold by the detainees and weighing 7.8 kilograms was neither a narcotic nor a psychotropic substance nor a precursor but apparently flour. Only the first dose of 0.2 grams of heroin was in fact the pure drug. The total weight of seized heroin amounted to 0.3 grams.