Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec.15 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
Azerbaijani border guards have detained 99 criminals.
The detainees were transferred to law enforcement agencies, the Azerbaijani State Border Service told Trend.
In November, 27 people were detained while trying to illegally cross the border. Seventeen such cases were prevented.
Some 17 of the 27 people who violated the state border were Azerbaijani, three were Iranian, three were Georgian, three were Russian and one was Pakistani.
In November, six kilograms of narcotic substances were also seized during illicit trafficking.
Roughly 246,857 manat was seized in 73 cases.