BISHKEK, Kyrgyz Republic - June 2016. On 7 June 2016, during a search operation carried out by employees of State Service on Drug Control (ГСКН) and State Customs Service (ГТС) in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, two persons were detained on suspicion of involvement in the illicit trafficking of psychotropic substances. During the personal search a plastic bag containing white powder was seized. The State Service on Drug Control experts identified the seized substance as pentedrone, a synthetic cathinone with stimulant effect. The net weight of the seized powder was 29 grams with an estimated value on the illicit market of 100 thousand Kyrgyzstani soms (about USD 1,476).

The Kyrgyz Republic legislation prohibits NPS trafficking and use. On December 4, 2015, through the Decree No 831, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic amended the list of controlled substances contained in the Decree “On narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors subject to control in the Kyrgyz Republic”, dated November 9, 2007, № 543, to include a number of new psychoactive substances. Over 100 NPS, including pentedrone, were placed under control.

For more information please see:
http://www.gskn.kg/novosti/nakanune-zaderzhany-grazhdane-respubliki-kazakhsta/ (in Russian)
https://www.unodc.org/LSS/Country/Details/KG (only for registered EWA users)