Uzbek citizen, trying to take opium to Mecca detained

Baku. 19 August. REPORT.AZ/ A resident of Uzbekistan's Samarkand city, Shamshi Ahrorov was detained while trying to take opium and foreign currencies to Mecca.

Report informs citing CA-NEWS, he was detained by Uzbek Customs Committee officers at the Samarkand airport.

72 grams of opium and 5,722 US-dollars as well as national currencies of other states were revealed on him and seized.