According to the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs press service, a step-by-step scheme for the sale of marijuana in the city of Aktau has been documented as a result of a series of operational-search activities – amounting to several tens of kilograms. Search operations were conducted:
- in various parts of the city;
- in apartments;
- in non-residential premises.
The total weight of the seized drugs exceeded 200 kg. Four residents of Aktau and one native of the southern region of the country have been arrested.
"A similar method was employed by the officers of the Department for Combating Organized Crime in Almaty. A resident of the southern capital was detained, from whom mephedrone and marijuana in particularly large quantities were seized at his residence," – reported Kuan-dyk Alpyss, a representative of the Department for Combating Organized Crime.
During further operations in the Almaty region, authorities managed to shut down a drug laboratory, where over 600 liters and 100 kg of various precursors used in the production of synthetic drugs were seized. This prevented the production and sale of more than 100 kg of synthetic drugs.
Recently in Aktau, narcotics officers apprehended two local residents, aged 42 and 33, for posting flyers containing links to Telegram drug shops.