Chief of the Public Relations Center of the ministry Arif Babayev told APA that citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Hashimov Parviz Kamran and Gurbanov Tavakkul Zakariyye were arrested on September 17, 2013 over charges under Criminal Code’s articles #206.3.2 (smuggling of firearms by an organized group) and 228.2.1 (obtaining, storing, carrying firearms, their spare parts).
Parviz Hashimov and Tavakkul Gurbanov have been sentenced to pretrial detention under court decision dated September 18, 2013.