On June 18, at 02:10, the border guards stopped a suspicious Chevrolet car with state license plate 77 PX 201 near Beylagan district’s Khalaj village, the service said in a statement, Caliber.Az reports.
As a result of search operations, over 102 kg of narcotics and 1,200 tablets of M-40 methadone were found. Huseynov Gorkmaz Yagub oglu (born 1977), a resident of the Ismailli district, and Rzayev Veli Imdat oglu (born 1995), a resident of the Binagadi district, were detained.
Additionally, on June 18 at 11:30, as a result of operative actions carried out by employees of the "Geytepe" border detachment, a bag with 5 kg 300 g of marijuana was found and seized in a package hidden in the bush at the border outpost near the village of Sarkhanly of the Jalilabad district.
The criminal case is currently being investigated.
Drug smuggling from Iran's territory has increased in recent months. Azerbaijan has faced numerous drug-trafficking attempts, all of which have been foiled.
After liberating its lands from Armenia's occupation in a 44-day war with Armenia in 2020, Azerbaijan restored control over the 132 km section of the Azerbaijan-Iran border.
Drugs are traditionally smuggled in from Afghanistan into Iran and from there into Azerbaijan. Taking into account the geographical location of our country, drug traffickers try to smuggle drugs into European countries along the Balkan route by transit through Azerbaijan.
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