Group smuggling drugs via Azerbaijan seized
BAKU – Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry has seized a group of people smuggling drugs from neighboring Iran to Russia through Azerbaijani territory.
About 61 kg of narcotics were impounded from the outlaws, according to the ministry.
In one of the operations carried out to nab the drug smugglers, Azerbaijani security officers teamed up with Russia’s drug enforcement agency. An Azerbaijani citizen was detained in St. Petersburg with over 40 kg of hashish. Law enforcers established that Iranian nationals, who consipred with him, had hidden the drugs in a box filled with dates.
In another operation, the Azerbaijani ministry’s officers detained six residents of Astara, on the border with Iran. They impounded over 21 kg of hashish tar smuggled from Iran and money worth around $17,600 received in exchange for the narcotics.
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