Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Karim Komilov. Stone block, which fell from the mountains inclination, took away the car with passengers into the gorge. Two people died.

As it was reported VARORUD at Sughd Administration of Internal Affairs, huge stone fell from the mountains on 87 kilometer of the highway Pendjikent-Ainy to the front part of the car "Jiguli". Kendja Kendjayev, 23-year-old driver and one of the passengers, the pupil of 11th grade, Aininskiy district died as a result of the tragedy.

The source stressed, " the car fell into the cliff with the depth of 200 meters and then fell into the river. Two passengers rescued and the third was taken to the district hospital with serious personal injuries".

According to source, this year it is the first case with fatal outcome in the part of the highway.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Karim Komilov. Sughd oblast prosecutor's office accuses Kh.D., 30-year-old resident of B.Gafurov district and his sister, 34-year-old Z.D. in sexual people's exploitation.

Criminal case on suspicion in people's sexual exploitation has been initiated by Sughd oblast prosecutor's office. According to source, Kh.D, being in previous concert with his sister and Z.K., 52-year-old resident of Khujand have sent a 36-year-old resident of Kanibadam city to the United Arab Emirates by fraud, in April 2004.

According to source, " she was involved in prostitution in the city of Dubai". Criminal case on the fact of enrolment with the purpose of exploitation was initiated by Sughd prosecutor's office in respect of these three people.
As it was reported at the regional prosecutor's office, six criminal cases connected with people's traffic were initiated in respect of 10 people from 10 December 2005 to January 23, 2006.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Karim Komilov. Sughd oblast prosecutor's office incriminates shop robbery to fugitives-prisoners.

Two prisoners, who escaped from Khujand Reformatory Labor Colony, have robbed a shop. According to Sughd Administration of Internal Affairs data, the fugitives Yevgeniy Niyozov and Safaraly Tbarov have robbed one of the shops of Khujand city on the third day of their escape.

As the source told VARORUD correspondent, " the fugitives took warm clothes. Generally, these were expensive leather jackets. The total sum of the loot amounted over 5,000 somoni (over 1,700 US dollars).

Now, the fugitives are incriminated the robbery as well as the escape. Prosecutor's office of Khujand city has subjoined the fact of shop robbery to the criminal case, initiated earlier in respect of two fugitives.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Madina Saifidinova. Drugs smugglers aim at involving their people in law enforcement agencies.

Drugs dealers seek for different ways of their criminal business realization, one of which is providing their people with work in all the structures, including law enforcement agencies. Sheravliyo Mirzoavliyoev, the chief of the Narcotics Control Agency in Sughd oblast has reported this at the press conference held on 31 January.

According to him, last year, 6 members of the law enforcement agencies were detained for their implication to narcotics in Sughd oblast.

Major general stressed, " there was a period till 2003, when the members of certain law enforcement agencies, including the members of Narcotics Control Agency, who were selling drugs". Mirzoavliiyoev considers, that easy money is the basic reason for this tendency.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Karim Komilov. Sughd law enforcement agencies have detained the leader of the women's wing of the banned extremist organization Hizb ut Tahrir.

The members of the law enforcement agencies have detained 33-year-old Mukaddamdjon Madalieva, the leader of the religiously extremist party Hizb ut Tahrir in Sughd oblast, 30 January Khujand.

As it was reported VARORUD at Sughd prosecutor's office, the detention of women's leader of the banned organization Hizb ut Tahrir passed successfully due to the operational-research actions conduct in Khujand.

The source stressed, " starting with February 2005 she was the leader of the women's wing of Hizb ut Tahrir in Sughd oblast. Among her duties were materials collection regarding the work of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir and their activity coordination in Sughd oblast. She regularly prepared detailed report of done work to the superior direction of the party.

At the moment, Madalieva is in investigative isolator of the Department of the Ministry of Security of Tajikistan in Sughd oblast. She is charged with public appeal to forcible change of the constitutional regime.

It should be stressed, that according to official data, 42 members of Hizb ut Tahrir party were detained by the law enforcement agencies and 8 criminal cases were sent for judicial trial in respect of the leaders and activists of the banned organization in Sughd oblast over 2005.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Madina Saifidinova. The Agency for Drug Control (ADC) of Sughd oblast has organized relations with its colleagues from foreign countries.

ACD has strengthened the cooperation with law-enforcement agencies from such countries as CIS, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. As Sheravliyo Mirzoavliyoev, chairman of ACD in Sughd oblast informed, such decision was made by authorities to organize a joint struggle against drug dealers. "Only in 2005 13 joint operations were conducted. According to our agreement our cynologists were trained in developed countries", - said Mirzoavliyoev. He also mentioned that in 2005 in Sughd oblast about 700 kilograms of drugs were seized by law-enforcement agencies.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Madina Saifidinova. Most of criminals dealing with narcotics "specialize" in heroin.

Most drugs smugglers prefer to sell hard drug as heroin, informed journalists Sheravliyo Mirzoavliyoev, a chairman of Anti Drug Department of Sughd oblast.

According to him one of the reasons of such tendency is high cost of such kind of narcotics. "In Afghanistan a kilogram of heroin costs $500 US. As a result of operational investigation we found out that a kilo of heroin in Tajikistan costs more than 10 thousand US dollars, in Russia it is 50 thousand US dollars, in England its price increased to 200 thousand US dollars", - said Mirzoavliyoev. He also has mentioned that the production of heroin is very simply and it has no any smell and weighs quite light.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Karim Komilov. About a kilo of heroin was seized from the jobless inhabitant of Mastcha district.

As Department of Internal Affairs of Sughd oblast informed, as a result of investigative operation the inhabitant of Mastcha - S.K., who is temporarily jobless was arrested with about a kilo of heroin in the territory of Babajan Gafurov bus terminal on January 26.

As it became clear during the investigation, the arrested was 21 year-old citizen of Mastcha district of Sughd oblast. While personal search a bundle made of cellophane was found which contained white powder-like substance.

An expertise has defined, that there was a hard drug-heroin in the bundle, which weighed 990 grams. Prosecutor office has instituted a criminal case on the fact of illegal keeping of drug.

Khujand. IAA "VARORUD". Madina Saifidinova. Law-enforcement agencies of Khujand assert, that in 2006 the activity of illegal extremist party "Hizb-ut -Tahrir" will be decreased.

The activity of the illegal party "Hizb-ut -Tahrir" will be decreased in 2006, informed Mullohi Ruziev, chairman of Khujand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) in the press- conference conducted on February 1.

According to him, an active struggle against the members of this party is being conducted. "A great number of party leaders are arrested", - he said.

Regarding to DIA, 11 members of the extremist party were detained by law-enforcement agencies over 2005; three of them were women.

"These arrested citizens are mainly from Khujand and Bobojon Gafurov district. Unfortunately the number of the members is increasing, but the reason of people's involvement is not clear. Nobody conducted such analysis yet and there fore we cannot define the motivation", - he has concluded.