AKIPRESS.COM - The Mongolian police arrested three people in Ulaanbaatar when they were transporting a large amount of narcotic drugs, the country's National Police Agency (NPA) announced Wednesday.

The new arrest makes the number of people apprehended for drug trafficking in the country so far this year amount to 59, Xinhua reported citing NPA.

In the latest operation on Tuesday evening, two men and a woman aged 19-32 were detained in Sukhbaatar district in the capital of Ulan Bator and police officers seized methamphetamine worth around 500 million Mongolian tugriks (about $190,000) on the spot, the NPA said in a statement, adding that further investigation is underway.

According to Mongolian law, the person who is found guilty of trafficking drugs will be punished by imprisonment of at least two years.