Azerbaijan, Lankaran / Тrend corr P. Aliyeva / An operation against drug trafficking in the Azerbaijani southern region has been a success.
Employees of the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry detained residents of Astara region Mehdi Imanov, 23, and Taleh Mirzayev, 26, when they were trying to sell some 2kg of hashish in Lankaran region, a regional office of the Interior Ministry's Central Department for Drugs reported to Trend on 3 December.
The case has been sent to the Interior Ministry's Central Department for Organized Crime.
Astara is located 320km south of Baku.