Two residents of the Urgut district of the Samarkand province were convicted of illicit cross border drug trafficking and smuggling, the UzA said.
The man, D.A., went to the Penjikent district of the Sughd province of Tajikistan. There he gave the drug dealer $20 thousand in an advance payment for 20.7 kg of opium, previously agreed to be purchased for $100 thousand.
Then he returned to Uzbekistan, instructing that the drugs be delivered to the Tajik-Uzbek border.
A day later, D.A., together with an accomplice, a citizen of Tajikistan S.M., went to Penjikent again by roundabout routes, where he picked up the opium delivered by drug couriers from an agreed place. While trying to return to the territory of Uzbekistan, he was detained.
The investigation found that another resident of the Urgut district, Zh. R., was involved in the crime.
The Urgut district criminal court found citizens D. A. and S. M. guilty of committing crimes under Articles 273 (Illegal production, acquisition, storage and other actions with narcotic drugs, their analogues or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale, as well as their sale), 223 (Illegal travel abroad or illegal entry into Uzbekistan) and 246 (Smuggling) of the Criminal Code, and sentenced each of them to 16 years and 6 months in prison.
