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Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan prevented 16 organized and 6 transnational organized drug trafficking groups last year

12 March 2009 17:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“APA. The Ministry of National security of Azerbaijan prevented 16 organized and 6 transnational organized groups, as well as separate criminals dealt with the drug trafficking, report of the Azerbaijani government to the parliament for 2008 said. According to APA, more than 970 kg of narcotic drugs, including 74.461 kg heroin, 843.147 kg hashish, 53.773 kg opium and 95.781 g MDMA psychotropic agent were confiscated totally. 25 criminal cases were launched on those facts. 82 citizens of Azerbaijan, 6 citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, two of Russian Federation and one Turkish citizen were summoned for questioning. One of the criminal groups (3 Azerbaijani and 8 Russian citizens) was rendered harmless in Russia with the support of Russian special services and 88 kg of narcotic drugs was confiscated form them.
The security services have also found 15 tons of sturgeon smuggled to Azerbaijan. In the field of combating illegal migration and human trafficking, preparation and using of fabricated documents, the fact of human trafficking for sexual exploitation of women in Turkey was found out. An Iranian citizen using the fabricated documents and Azerbaijani citizen swindling money from the people were arrested and charged under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.