KAZAKHSTAN customs agents have seized 537kg of Afghan heroin

KAZAKHSTAN customs agents have seized 537kg of Afghan heroin on the Russian border that authorities say is worth $US22 million ($24 million).The record haul in the former Soviet republic amounted to more than 3.5 million doses, customs official Nurlan Alymbekov said, according to Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency.
Authorities arrested a Russian who was driving the car where they found the drugs.
He was attempting to cross the border in the Kostany region in northern Kazakhstan. Traffickers frequently smuggle heroin through former Soviet republics, three of which - Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - border Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer.