70 human trafficking cases exposed this year: Azeri official
70 cases of human trafficking were revealed in Azerbaijan in the first nine months of 2011, Deputy Interior Minister Vilayat Eyvazov has said.
Eyvazov, who acts as the national coordinator for fighting human trafficking, said in parliament Friday that law enforcers exposed two cases related to illegal transplants of organs and one case of forced labor in January-September. A total of four criminal groups were neutralized and 17 persons detained.
Eyvazov also said 27 victims of human trafficking were identified, and those persons were mainly taken to Turkey, UAE and Russia.
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