In the period from September 18 to 19, 2018, CARICC Deputy Director Lieutenant-General A.Shayakhmetov took part in the 28th Anti-Drug Liaison Officials’ Meeting for International Cooperation (ADLOMICO), held in Busan, Republic of Korea.
The aim of the international conference organized by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea was to review global and regional trends in drug smuggling and to develop various anti-drug countermeasures.
The event was attended by representatives of competent bodies of various countries, as well as international organizations such as UNODC, Interpol, ASEAN, APICC and others.
As part of the program of the event A.Shayakhmetov made a report on tendencies of drug distribution in the Central Asian region, measures taken by the Centre in combating drug trafficking and spread of new psychoactive substances.

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Between September 10 and September 15, the International Counter-Narcotics Operation "Channel-Red Barkhan" was held with participation of counter-narcotics agencies of Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China.
International Coordination Headquarters, located in Shymkent carried out interaction and coordination of law enforcement bodies of the participating countries.
Representatives of CARICC, headed by Director G.Pustovitov, took part as observers together with such international organizations as the European Union, the OSCE, the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, the UNODC Regional Office and others.
The main objectives of the operation "Channel - Red Barkhan" were interdiction of networks of opiate smuggling, suppression of activities of transnational drug smuggling groups, fight against legalization of drug incomes, seizure of arms, ammunition and explosives from illegal circulation.
Also, the aim of the operation was to eradicate illegal cultivation of cannabis in the Kyzylorda region and harvesting of wild cannabis in the Zhambyl region.
As a result of the operation, over 9 tons of various drugs, including 5 tons of opiates, 38 kilograms of heroin, 2 tons of synthetic drugs, 800 kilograms of hashish, and more than 830 kilograms of marijuana were seized from illegal trafficking in territory of the states participating in it.
During the operation 719 drug crimes were detected, about 7,000 criminal cases were instituted.

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A training course on organizational matters of the regional operation "Reflex-2018" was held within the premises of CARICC in the period from September 6 to September 7, 2018.
The event was organized by CARICC under the Regional Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Afghanistan and Neighbouring Countries.
Attending were representatives of competent agencies of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as plenipotentiary representatives of CARICC member states.
The course provided a platform for participants to review and discuss materials about the form of reporting on operation results, communication channels and information systems of CARICC, current challenges at identifying new psychoactive substances and their analogues, as well as practical lessons on the use of the "AIPSIN" software.

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On August 10, 2018 CARICC hosted a meeting of the Working Group on the organization of anti-drug operations and other activities within the competence of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Bodies on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCBCD) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states.
Representatives of the CSTO Secretariat, competent bodies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CARICC leadership took part in the event.
During the meeting, participants discussed issues related to preparations for the Regional Anti-Drug Operation “Channel” under the code name “Channel-Red Barkhan”, expansion and strengthening of interaction with regional international organizations such as the Bureau for the Coordination of the Fight against Organized Crime (BKBOP) CIS, Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) of SCO, CARICC and others.
The parties considered the possibility of the participation of the heads of the competent bodies of Afghanistan and Iran at the next meeting of the CCBCD, also they reviewed the results of the meeting of the chief narcologists of the CSTO member states held in June 2018 in Almaty.

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