22 foreigners arraigned over drug trafficking in 2011
22 foreign nationals were prosecuted over drug trafficking in Azerbaijan in 2011, according to official estimates.
Over 54 kg of drugs were confiscated from the foreigners, the state committee for combating drugs and drug trafficking told Trend news agency on Tuesday.
Two of them are citizens of Iran, while 13 others are Georgian nationals, four are from Russia and one each from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Turkey.
In 2011, interior bodies reported 2,036 crimes related to drug trafficking, of which 817 were related to drug trade. Over 557 kilograms of narcotics were impounded.
As of 2011, over 26,000 drug addicts were registered in the country, which has a population of 9 million. The figure is 4.8 percent above 2010.
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