According to an interdepartmental report that investigated the Kyrgyz Ministry of Interior, the amount of heroin confiscated from these four officers was more than the entire amount of heroin seized in all of Kyrgyzstan that year.
However, the experts said the amount of material confiscated — about a pound — was far shy of the 60 to 110 pounds a terrorist would need for a crude atomic weapon.
Drug seizures ebb and flow over the years, but the amount of heroin confiscated nationwide has been arcing up since the mid-90s, going from 370 kilograms in 1998 nationwide to about 600 kilograms — roughly $150 million worth of heroin — last year, though officials believe it is a small fraction of what is available on the street.
According to Edward Fox at Insight Crime, the Dominican government "has already seized more than a quarter of the total amount of cocaine it confiscated in 2012".
The idea of seizing jewellery from people who are fleeing has a particularly bitter connotation in Europe, where the Nazis confiscated large amounts of gold and other valuables from Jews and others.
A statement from the Turkish military on Dec. 31 said security forces had confiscated large amounts of bomb-making materials, including more than 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, in an apartment in Diyarbakir.
When the Chinese authorities confiscated a vast amount of the stuff, the British sent in gunboats, backed by France, Russia and America, and bullied China into legalising opium imports.Initial efforts to stamp out drug use at home had little to do with concerns about health.
Soon, Leo caused a rift with his half-brothers, when he confiscated a large amount of gold reserved for their use and distributed it to the army and the citizens of Constantinople as a donative.
A Bestival spokesperson told me they work closely with Hampshire Police to keep the festival safe, and they're not wrong: The evidence is there to show they confiscated a huge amount of narcotics over the course of this past weekend.
