Armenia`s SRC officers reveal 85kg of hashish

ArmInfo.  Employees of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) have discovered a large batch of hashish weighing 85 kg, which was delivered to the territory of Armenia from Iran. This was reported by the press service of the State Revenue Committee.

The source notes that this case was registered at the Agarak customs  checkpoint on the Armenian-Iranian border, where a customs inspection  of a truck with a trailer driven by Iranian citizen V.Kh. was carried  out using X-ray equipment. As a result of the inspection, suspicious  masses were found in the area of the trailer. This information was  transferred to the anti-smuggling department, and the customs  inspection of the truck and trailer was continued using special  technical means and service dogs. A hiding place was found in the  floor of the trailer, which contained 112 packages of hashish  weighing more than 85 kg. They were packed in transparent  polyethylene film and foil.

Based on direct and reasonable suspicion of drug smuggling, Iranian  citizen V.Kh. was detained and taken to the Syunik Regional  Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the  Republic of Armenia, where he was arrested. 

The preliminary investigation of the criminal case was transferred to  the Main Department for the Investigation of Economic Crimes and  Smuggling of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia.  Currently, the State Revenue Committee, the National Security Service  and the Investigative Committee are jointly conducting large-scale  investigative and operational-search activities to identify all  persons who were supposed to receive narcotic drugs on the territory  of the Republic of Armenia and organize their further sale.