Azerbaijan seizes over 137 kg of heroin on border with Iran [VIDEO]

7 December 2021 17:55 (UTC+04:00)

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By Vugar Khalilov

Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee has seized over 137 kg of drugs at the Astara customs checkpoint on the border with Iran, the committee has reported.

According to a tip-off received by the operations and investigation department of the Southern Territorial Main Customs Office, a truck trying to smuggle a large amount of drugs from Iran to Kazakhstan via Azerbaijan was detained by officers at the Astara customs checkpoint, the report added.

During a thorough inspection of the vehicle, customs officers seized 171 rectangular packages stashed within the cabin, containing 137 kg of heroin.

As a result of the initial interrogation, the truck’s driver confessed that the drug was loaded on a vehicle in Iran under a prior agreement and had to be transported to Kazakhstan in order to be sold.

It should be noted that the confiscated drugs are assumed to be worth over AZN16 million ($10m) on the European black market.