BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 22. Iranian citizens have been detained with a large batch of drugs in the Caspian Sea's Azerbaijani sector, a source in the State Border Service of Azerbaijan told Trend.
According to the source, the Command Center of the State Border
Service's Coast Guard spotted unidentified watercraft heading
southward in the Alat anchorage.
In order to detain the detected target, a border patrol ship
guarding the state border initiated a pursuit operation, coastal
guard units were informed, and urgent measures were taken to close
the coastline.
The border patrol ship fired one warning shot. A liner-type
watercraft belonging to Iran, with two crew members, was detained
as a result of a border search conducted in the southern direction
by border patrol ships, coastal control units of the Coast Guard,
as well as helicopters and drones of the Special Air Operations
Forces in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
The investigation established that the detained individuals are citizens of Iran, Muhtar Abdi Yaldji, born in 1991, and Ali Bahrami Mohammad, born in 2000, who violated the state border with the aim of illegally importing narcotics into the country.
As a result of operational-search measures, 20.4 kilograms of marijuana in eight packages, discarded by the border violators at sea, were discovered and seized.
Operational-investigative activities are ongoing regarding the incident.
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