Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.23 / Trend , K. Zarbaliyeva /
Azerbaijan's interior agencies, prosecutors' offices and national security agencies have detected 376 unsolved crimes over the past 15 years, Interior Minister Ramil Usubov said in an interview to the Azerbaijan state newspaper.
According to him, about 15, 217 people who were wanted by police and 134 of those accused who hid in CIS countries were made criminally responsible.
Also, the location of 67 persons wanted by the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Azerbaijan was determined.
Usubov said that as a result of an operational search, 436 groups and organized groups consisting of 955 people were rendered harmless. About 1, 115 units of illegal firearms and 166,000 bullets have been seized from them.
Over 372 kilograms of drugs were seized.
According to the minister, 80 crimes related to human trafficking were detected as a result of purposeful measures in combating human trafficking, 76 people were made criminally responsible and 25 criminal groups consisting of 55 persons were rendered harmless.
In 2009, 159 employees of interior agencies were wounded and seven died in the line of duty, Usubov said.
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