Mash?had, Aug 4, IRNA � 200 kilograms of opium was seized from a passenger car in northeastern Iranian Khorassan-e Razavi province?s Kashmar Township, commander of province?s police force said Monday.
?We were informed that a smuggler driving a Peugeot passenger car was transferring a noticeable quantity of narcotic drugs from the country?s southern provinces to Mash?had and was going to pass through Kashmar district. So we commissioned a team of anti-narcotic drugs campaign officers to pursue the matter,? General Bahman Amiri-Moqaddam told the Police Force website on Monday.
He said that his affiliated forces launched ambush operations in all roads that connect that township with the southern provinces and acquired precise information about the time that the Peugeot passenger car in question was going to enter the township?s area.

?The passenger car was then identified and pursued, but the smuggler tried to escape when he noticed that he had been tracked and in the course of running away from police he ran into a parked car and was forced to stop and urged to get out of his car by the police forces,? he added.

General Amiri-Moqaddam said that the smuggler was arrested and 200 kilograms of narcotic drugs of opium type, packed in ten 20 kilogram packs were seized from his car.

He said that the police forces have now started a vast investigation aimed at identifying and arresting the other members of that smuggler?s drug band relying on the interrogation reports of the arrested man.

?After the interrogations in the police office the culprit and his smuggling file were forwarded to the provincial court of justice,? he added.

Eastern Iran borders Afghanistan, which is the world?s number one opium and drug producer. Iran?s geographical position has made the country a favorite transit corridor for drug traffickers who intend to smuggle their cargoes from Afghanistan to drug dealers in Europe.

Iran, located at the crossroad of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan to Europe leads international efforts in fighting drug networks and narcotic traffickers.

The anti-drug squads of the Iranian Law Enforcement Police have intensified their countrywide campaign against drug-trafficking through staging long-term systematic operations since last year.

By IRNA

 

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