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Narcotics seized in large amount in Azerbaijan

Politics Materials 18 May 2009 10:58 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 18 / Trend , K. Zarbaliyeva/

Baku police has seized narcotics in large amount.

Sabayil District Police Department's Office for Combating Narcotics and Police Office 39 have seized 3,250 grams of narcotics from 49-year-old Maharramov Mammad Pasha oglu.

The interior ministry agencies seized over 651 kilograms of drugs in 2008, a rise a 1.9 times from 2007. Smuggle of 159 kilograms of narcotics to the country was prevented.

As many as 2,085 (91 percent) of those made accountable for the narcotics-related crimes were unemployed, 530 (23.4 percent) are earlier convicted people and 57 are women (2.5 percent) and 5 (0.2 percent) were under age people.

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