RA Prosecutor General's Office and the RA Police revealed cases of illicit trafficking in <b>narcotic drugs</b> (opium and heroin) of big amounts. On February 8, based on data obtained in preliminary investigation an Iranian citizen was detained on the Ashtarak-Yerevan highway who had 4750 grams of opium in his car. The same day a citizen of Russia Hovhannes Davtyan was arrested, 7 kilograms of heroin as found in his car. The confiscated heroin was smuggled into Armenia - across the closed Armenian-Turkish border. The market price of drugs made USD 2 million, press office of the General Prosecutor's office reported.