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Drugs mule held with 25 million-ruble haul

Police have detained a Tajik citizen carrying heroin and hashish worth more than 25 million rubles in Moscow

MOSCOW, October 23 (Itar-Tass) - Police have detained a Tajik citizen carrying heroin and hashish worth more than 25 million rubles in Moscow, an interior ministry official told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

The man was stopped in the city's southern Tsaritsyno district with six kilogrammes of drugs in his car, the official said, noting that the mule's arrest had cut off a major trafficking channel to Moscow.