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Organized criminal group smuggling from Azerbaijan to Russia rendered harmless

23 November 2009 10:32 (UTC +04:00)

The Interior Ministryâ€™s office in the Southern Federal Region detained the group, which smuggled illegal goods from Azerbaijan to Russia for long years. The group has been haunted since the beginning of 2009 and several facts of the illegal shipment were recorded. The group contained both Azerbaijani and Russian citizens. They used secret box in the postal car of Baku-Rostov train and smuggled large deal of spare parts of local cars, Turkish and Chinese goods and realized the goods in the trade network of Southern Federal Region. Six members of the organized criminal group were detained while attempting to smuggle goods amounted to three million rubles to Russia. There were more than 5000 automotive spare parts among the smuggled goods. Automakers said the parts with local producersâ€™ trade marks were made in China and Turkey and didnâ€™tâ€™ meet standards of quality. The smugglers will be charged with article 188.4 of the Criminal Code of Russia.