National Security Ministry conducts operation to prevent illegal weapon acquisition and drug smuggling from Iran

National Security Ministry conducts operation to prevent illegal weapon acquisition and drug smuggling from Iran
# 17 December 2014 12:31 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. As a result of search operations carried out by the Ministry of National Security, a group of persons suspected of illegally acquiring, storing, transporting, and carrying fire-arms, parts of them, and ammunition and smuggling drugs from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan have been detained.

As a result of complex operations, citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Mehdiyev Aftandil Aghadadash oglu, Mehdiyev Zaur Aghadadash oglu, Mirzayev Rauf Nijat oglu and Hasanov Namiq Mammad oglu – were caught red-handed, the ministry’s public relations department told APA.

During the inspection of their houses, 2 Makarov pistols, 33 cartridges, 2 pistol trunks, 1 Nagant revolver and 5 cartridges for it, as well as 2.5 kilograms of gold, 641 grams of jewelries made of silver and other precious metals, large amounts of narcotics – heroin, opium dried marijuana and diazepam which is considered to be psychotropic substance – were found and seized.

The Main Investigation Department of the National Security Ministry launched criminal cases on all facts under articles #206.3.2 (smuggling of narcotics by group of persons by prior collusion, #234.4.1 and 234.4.3 (manufacture, acquisition, storage, shipment, or sale for the illicit manufacture and processing of drugs by prior collusion) and 228.2.1 (illegal purchase, transfer, selling, storage, transportation and carrying of fire-arms, accessories to it, supplies, explosives) of the Criminal Code.

Mehdiyev Aftandil Aghadadash oglu, Mehdiyev Zaur Aghadadash oglu, Mirzayev Rauf Nijat oglu and Hasanov Namig Mammad oglu were sentenced to pre-trial detention by the court.

The investigation and operations are underway to determine other participants of the illegal acts. As the investigation revealed new details of the crime, as well as the illegal acts of Aftandil Mehdiyev, Zaur Mehdiyev and Namig Hasanov are not limited with the above-mentioned actions, the citizens who were affected by their illegal acts are asked to contact the local bodies of the National Security Ministry. Phone: 405-99-99

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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED