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Photo Essay - Central Asia Drug Trade



Hero in Grab


Hero in Grab

A Russian Federal Security Service agent shows a confiscated pack of Afghan heroin trafficked into Russia via Kazakhstan by six drug traffickers carrying a total of 23 kilograms -- worth about $115,000 in Kazakh markets. In 2001, heroin flows to Kazakhstan from Afghanistan doubled and sales tripled, according to government sources quoted by the Kazakh newspaper EKSPRESS K.



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