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Viewing cable 09DUSHANBE530, TAJIKISTAN: FEBRUARY - APRIL 2009 LAW ENFORCEMENT

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09DUSHANBE530 2009-05-06 11:14 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Dushanbe
VZCZCXRO7525
RR RUEHAST RUEHBI RUEHCI RUEHLH RUEHNEH RUEHPW
DE RUEHDBU #0530/01 1261114
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 061114Z MAY 09
FM AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE
TO RUEHDBU/AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE 0546
RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0295
INFO RUEHVEN/USMISSION USOSCE 0014
RUCNCLS/ALL SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA COLLECTIVE
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RHMFIUU/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 DUSHANBE 000530 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR SCA/CEN (HUSHEK) 
INL/AAE (BUHLER) 
JUSTICE FOR (DUCOT AND NEWCOMBE) 
DEFENSE FOR OSD/P 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS PINR TI
SUBJECT: TAJIKISTAN: FEBRUARY - APRIL 2009 LAW ENFORCEMENT 
DEVELOPMENTS 
 
REF: DUSHANBE 0130 
 
DUSHANBE 00000530  001.2 OF 003 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC//ICITAP 
 
1.  (SBU) SUMMARY:  Afghan drug traffickers killed two Drug 
Control Agency officers and wounded three Border Guards at the 
Tajik-Afghan border in Khatlon's Shurabad district.  Border 
Guards killed six Afghan drug traffickers in Shurabad district. 
The Drug Control Agency reported early 2009 seizures were up 4.5 
times over 2008.  Law enforcement continues to make large 
seizures including 30 kilos of narcotics hidden in a cement 
truck; Border Guards seized four traffickers with 43 kilos of 
cannabis; GBAO Drug Control Agency officers seized 26.5 kilos of 
hashish in the Murgab district; and Ministry of Internal Affairs 
officers seized 40 kilos of marijuana in Shurabad.  The 
Counter-Narcotics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 
burned over 500 tons of narcotics in April.  The Ministry of 
Internal Affairs intercepted currency smugglers in northern 
Tajikistan.  The new Minister of Internal Affairs shakes up 
police officials.  A new Criminal Procedures Code will be 
approved soon.  INL awards justice sector grants to eight 
non-governmental organizations.  End summary. 
 
DRUG-RELATED ARMED CLASHES 
 
2.  During a February skirmish near the border village of Sari 
Mazor in southern Tajikistan 30 armed Afghan drug traffickers 
killed two agents of the U.S.-supported Drug Control Agency. 
Three border guards were seriously wounded.  Officers found 
three sacks containing 60 kilograms of opiates. 
 
3.  As a result of another February skirmish between Border 
Guards and a group of armed Afghan drug traffickers near the 
border villages in Shurabad district, Border Guards killed six 
drug traffickers.  There were reportedly no casualties among the 
Border Guards.  Border Guards found more than 300 kilograms of 
various narcotics, four Kalashnikov sub-machine guns, and more 
than 450 rounds of ammunition at the scene. 
 
DRUGS SEIZED THROUGHOUT TAJIKISTAN 
 
4.  During February, Customs officers at the Nizhny Panj Bridge 
discovered 22 kilograms of heroin and 8 kilograms of raw opium 
hidden in the bags of cement arriving from Afghanistan. 
 
5.  Drug Control Agency officers seized nearly 99 kilos of 
narcotics in January and February, which is 4.5 times more than 
in the same period of last year.  The total includes 29 
kilograms of heroin, 13 kilograms of raw opium and 56 kilograms 
of marijuana.  The Drug Control Agency opened 22 criminal cases 
against 24 persons.  In cooperation with Border Guards, Drug 
Control Agency officers carried out one operation which led to 
the seizure of 65 kilograms of drugs.  Working jointly with 
Kyrgyz counterparts, Drug Control Agency officers intercepted 
almost 65 kilograms of heroin.  Over the same two-month period, 
officers from the Tajik Drug Control Agency carried out six 
operations in cooperation with Afghan police officers.  The 
operations resulted in the seizure of over 52 kilograms of 
drugs. 
 
6.  In March the Border Guards seized two sacks containing 43 
kilograms of cannabis at the Tajik-Afghan border in Gorno 
Badakhshan.  On routine patrol, the Border Guards spotted and 
detained four Tajik nationals who were illegally crossing the 
border river in the area of the "Ishkashim" border post. 
 
7.  In March officers from the GBAO Drug Control Agency 
department discovered 26.5 kilograms of hashish and one 
sub-machine-gun Kalashnikov in GBAO's Murgab district. 
 
8.  On March 31 police officers seized 40 kilograms of marijuana 
at the Tajik-Afghan border in Sarichashma in Khatlon's Shurabad 
district. 
 
9.  Over the first two months of this year, Tajik law 
enforcement agencies intercepted more than 800 kilograms of 
drugs. 
 
10.  On April 24 officers from the Counter-Narcotics Department, 
Ministry of Internal Affairs, burned more than 506 kilograms of 
narcotics at the Dushanbe plant, Tajiktekstilmash.  A total 
included more than 79 kilograms of heroin, 119 kilograms of raw 
opium, and 307 kilograms of cannabis.  Police officers 
 
DUSHANBE 00000530  002.2 OF 003 
 
 
confiscated these drugs in the course of 2008-2009 and they were 
material evidence for 118 criminal proceedings.  Under charges 
brought against the accused, police officers convicted 137 
persons, including six Afghan nationals. 
 
CURRENCY SMUGGLING 
 
11.  On March 28 Ministry of Internal Affairs officers 
intercepted 7.3 million Russian rubles at the Khudjand airport 
in Sugd province.  Officers detained the passenger, Taghoymurod 
Homidov, on a Khudjand-Moscow flight.  The Ministry reported he 
was acting in collusion with a Customs officer from the Khudjand 
airport, Stepan Oleynikov, by not declaring the cash in his 
customs declaration. 
 
SHAKE UP IN THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS 
 
12.  The new Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdurahim Qahhorov, 
(reftel) replaced a number of police officials, installing his 
new team: 
 
12A.  Abdurahmon Buzmakov, former Deputy Chief of the Khatlon 
Police Directorate in charge of the Kulob region, is head of the 
Criminal Investigation Directorate within the Ministry of 
Internal Affairs, replacing Ismatullo Rasulov. 
 
12B.  Ramazan Rahimov, former Head of the Defense and Public 
Order Department within the President's Office, is the First 
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, replacing Rauf Yusupov. 
 
12C.  Colonel Farodbek Shodmonbekov, who had previously served 
as a Deputy Head of the Technical Operations Department within 
the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is a Deputy Minister of 
Internal Affairs, replacing Abdujabbor Shamsov. 
 
12D.  Colonel Bukhoriyev, who had previously served as Chief of 
the Kanibadam Police Department, is a Head of the Ministry of 
Internal Affairs Counter-Narcotics Department, replacing Abdul 
Roziqov. 
 
12E.  Lieutenant-General Sherali Sabzov, former Head of the 
Interpol Office in Tajikistan, is Head of the Ministry of 
Internal Affairs Organized Crime Department. 
 
12F.  Iskandar Vakhobov, former Chief of the Vose Police 
Department, is Head of the Kulob Police Department, 
 
12G.  Rauf Yusupov, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, 
is Head of the Sugd Police Directorate. 
 
JUSTICE SECTOR REFORMS 
 
13.  In the end of March, the American Bar Association Rule of 
Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI), funded by INL, organized a two-day 
roundtable for judges, prosecutors, and parliamentarians, to 
discuss the new draft Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).  The 
Council of Justice, responsible for administering the court 
system, requested the opportunity to discuss the CPC.  ABA/ROLI 
brought in Nikolai Kovalev, a native of Kazakhstan, Doctor of 
Comparative Law and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of 
Canada to offer his opinions on the proposed amendments, 
comparing them to international legal standards.  At the end of 
the roundtable, ABA representatives forwarded all 
recommendations to the official drafting group, the Parliament 
and the Presidential Administration. 
 
14.  Prior to the ABA/ROLI Roundtable, HELVETAS (funded by the 
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation), organized a 
similar roundtable to discuss the CPC draft and supported a 
six-day retreat for the official drafting group and 
parliamentarians to complete the review process.  We expect that 
the Tajik Government will adopt the new Code by July 1, 2009. 
 
15.  The proposed new Code transfers power of arrest and search 
warrant issuance from prosecutors to judges.  To comply with the 
new Criminal Procedure Code requirement to separate the duties 
of the pre-trial judge and the judge proceeding over the case in 
court, the Tajik court system must recruit and train 30 
additional judges.  The Council of Justice recently requested 
ABA/ROLI's sponsorship in training the additional judges at the 
Judicial Training Center.  The director of the Judicial Training 
Center, Kanoat Khamidova, told us that President Rahmon said 
 
DUSHANBE 00000530  003.2 OF 003 
 
 
that the national budget was insufficient and requested each 
agency to work with international donors to fund appropriate 
activities. 
 
16.  In April Embassy Dushanbe's International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Section issued eight Justice Sector Reform grants 
totaling $295,000.  The grant recipients will implement projects 
including provision of legal aid, court monitoring, minor's 
legal representation, third party arbitration, and legal 
education. 
 
17.  COMMENTS:  We assess that Qahhorov's appointments of new 
senior leaders will lead to improvements in the professional 
operation of the Ministry.  We already received commitments of 
continued cooperation from the Minister and his new First 
Deputy, General Rahimov.  INL and other embassy offices have a 
good relationship Rahimov stemming from his previous position as 
a deputy minister.  We view the (anticipated) adoption of new 
criminal procedure code as a significant step in the separation 
of powers between prosecutors and the courts.  The wide initial 
discussion of the draft law is a welcomed development which we 
hope will result in the incorporation of suggested changes. 
JACOBSON