AZN 5 mln worth of drugs destroyed in Azerbaijan

  26 May 2015    Read: 2806
AZN 5 mln worth of drugs destroyed in Azerbaijan
358 kilograms of drugs and 3,620 cannabis plants were burnt
Under the instruction of Chairman of the State Commission on Combating Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, Ali Hasanov, 358 kilograms of drugs and 3,620 cannabis plants seized under 199 court judgments were destroyed by a special group in the administrative area of Machine-building Plant named after Bunyad Sardarov, the State Commission’s working group told on Tuesday.

27,448,509 kg heroin, 14,512,455 kg marihuana, 46,776, 867 hashish, 104,932, 806 kg opium, 15,256 kg hemp bushes, 200, 571 g cocaine, 358,756 g psychotropic agents were burnt. Burnt drugs worth $5 mln on black market.

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