Over 20 kg of drugs seized in Azerbaijan
Persons involved in smuggling and drug trafficking were exposed in Azerbaijan, the Center for Public Relations at the Ministry of National Security told Trend news agency on Thursday.
A total of over 20 kilograms of narcotics were seized.
A group of Azerbaijani citizens, by preliminary agreement secretly smuggled large quantities of drugs through customs control from Russia to Azerbaijan for sale.
It was ascertained that these citizens bought 125.46 grams of cocaine and 72.83 grams of methadone in Moscow. Members of the group hid drugs inside a DVD-player and secretly smuggled them to Azerbaijan through Samur customs point in an Ikarus bus operating on a Moscow-Baku-Moscow run. The group was detained in Baku.
As a result of other operation conducted by the Ministry of National Security, Azerbaijani citizen Dovlat Maharramov was detained.
It was ascertained that Maharramov, and an Iranian citizen, whose identity is currently being determined, smuggled a large quantity of narcotics from Iran to Azerbaijan.
The Iranian citizen smuggled a large amount of drugs across the border and hid them in an agreed location in the village Telmo of the Astara region. Maharramov was seized at the scene while trying to take a package with drugs from the pre-agreed place. Over 19 kilograms of hashish were found in the package.
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