“In 6 months of this year, 473 criminal groups were neutralized in Azerbaijan,” said First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, police lieutenant general Seyfulla Azimov at the board meeting, APA reports.
According to him, 125 people illegally possessing and carrying firearms were brought to criminal liability: “Compared to 6 months of last year, 132 kilograms more - 1 ton of 975 kilograms of drugs were removed from illegal circulation, and 105 tons of illegally cultivated drug plants were detected and destroyed.”