Drug dealers in Tashkent have started using taxi drivers to hand out drugs, media reports quoting Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs. A detainee admitted that he once had a passenger who asked for his number and offered an extra job.
The man said during the interrogation that he had taken the sealed bags from the indicated addresses several times and had taken them to the indicated addresses and gained UZS 100,000 (nearly $8.80) as profit for bringing the order.
‘Before the New Year, he sent me a photo and a location. I had to go there, take the hidden bag, and bring it wherever he told me. I did so. After the party, he texted me, and I returned the bag. After a while, he wrote me again, I went to the specified address, found a package, and when I was going to leave, I got detained’, the taxi driver confessed.
During the examination, packets of synthetic drugs were found in his possession.
‘I hid the bags in my socks. I tried this drug once too. But I wouldn’t say I liked it. So I promise I won’t do it again. No one should do this,’ he stressed.
Criminal proceedings were instituted under Article 276 of Uzbekistan's Criminal Code. The man is in custody, and investigations are continuing.
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