Border Guards Detained a Large Consignment of Heroin at the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Border

• On December 10, 2020, at a car checkpoint using an inspection complex and a service dog named "Jack" in a “Toyota Prado” vehicle driven by the citizen "B" en route from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan, were identified packets with substance of white - gray colour and with specific odor.

 

• The detained citizen and the seized substance were transferred to the Department of the NSC in the Zhambyl region for further procedural actions.

 

• On December 11, 2020, according to the results of the examination, it was established that the seized substance was heroin weighing 60 kilograms 370 grams.

 

• A criminal case has been initiated and is being investigated in accordance with part 4 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (smuggling of items withdrawn from circulation or items whose circulation is restricted, part 4 of the acts provided for in parts one, two or three of this article, related to narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues, committed on an especially large scale - are punished with imprisonment for a term of fifteen to twenty years or life imprisonment, with confiscation of property).

 

Press Service

of the National Security Committee

of the Republic of Kazakhstan