An attempt to import 19 kg of gold jewelry into Uzbekistan was stopped

    Safety&Sequrity 28 August 2025 1184

    As part of measures to protect the state border and combat the smuggling of commodities, Border guards of the State Security Service, together with the Office of the State Security Service for the Ferghana region, conducted an operational operation.

    As a result, two residents of the Ferghana region, born in 1991 and 1993, were detained. Gold jewelry illegally imported from the territory of the neighboring Kyrgyz Republic, weighing 19 kg 119 g, with an estimated value of about 20 billion soums, was seized from them. The products are designed as physical evidence.

    Currently, the materials have been sent for examination, and the issue of initiating a criminal case is being considered.