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Illegal Drug Traffick in Central Asian Countries

2019 - April

The CIS countries have already acquired the reputation of states with favorable conditions for drug expansion and are gradually turning into a new world center of drug business. Distribution channels run across the borders of the Central Asian region, which the international drug mafia is gradually getting closer to. After all, as is well known, the drug trade is an inexhaustible source of illegal revenue and is within the traditional field of criminal activity of organized crime.

The drug trade is almost entirely controlled by organized criminal groups and has a highly precise organization, and this problem is not only regional, but exists on a global scale. It should be noted that the illegal trade in narcotic drugs gradually acquires the character of “drug expansion” and in the Kyrgyz Republic involves more and more people in the process. As the ex-head of the Drug Control Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, B. Nogoibaev, emphasized, there is also a tendency in Kyrgyzstan to transform the country from a drugtransport country to a drug-dependent country.

We agree with the view that drug-related crime and drug addiction are interrelated negative phenomena whose fundamental differences necessitate a differentiation of measures to combat them. Despite the attempts of scientists to determine the legal nature of drug-related crime, drug addiction and drug addiction, a single position has not yet been developed.

It should be noted that the drug business has become a blatant threat in the countries of Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan. The reason for this, in our opinion, is the lack of a unified and coordinated state anti-drug policy, imperfect criminal legislation, ineffective law enforcement and much more.

In this paper, an analysis of various sources aimed at the consecration of issues related to drug addiction is carried out, which is relevant for almost all countries of Central Asia.