Officers of the Azerbaijan National Security Ministry has neutralized a transnational organized band group engaged in drug trafficking on the route Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia, the centre for Public Relations of the Ministry told Trend.
On the basis of the information being obtained on August 28, on the territory of Massali District of Azerbaijan, a lorry marked Volvo, with driver Abbaspour Faramarz Nostarabad Bahman oghli, an Iranian citizen was arrested. During the examination, 59 kg of hashish and abot 7.5 kg of opium were found.
As a result of operative measures, drug customers Musa Salamzadeh, a Ganja resident, 1957 year of birth, as well as other members of the organized band group Abbasipour Hamid Sadraddin oghli, an Iranian citizen, Hasanagha Abdullayev, a resident of lenkoran District of Azerbaijan , Afrail Mammadrzayev, a Baku resident, and Ganja residents Gulagha Abbasov and Elbrus Hojayev were detained. In the flats of some of the members of the band, drugs and arms were found in a big quantity in the flats of some of the members of the band.
The Inquiry Department of the Azerbaijan National Security Ministry has initiated a criminal case on the fact.
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