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The return of funds received from the export of agricultural products to Azerbaijan is being ensured, oxu.az reports with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Thus, based on information received from the State Customs Committee about the failure of some business entities exporting various types of products to foreign countries to return funds in the relevant currency to the country, the prosecutor’s office has initiated criminal cases and is conducting a preliminary investigation.

As a result of investigative measures carried out to date on criminal cases investigated by the prosecutor’s offices of the cities of Sumgayit and Ganja, Absheron, Guba, Khachmaz, Sabirabad, Ismayilli, Goychay, Shamkir, Gazakh, Terter districts, as well as the supervisory body of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, more than 21 million dollars (over 35.7 million manat at the exchange rate of the corresponding period) from the purchase and sale of agricultural products exported abroad have been returned to the authorized bank account in our country.

As a result of operational-search and customs control measures carried out by employees of the Astara Customs Department, a large quantity of narcotics was found in a car with a cargo of apples in transit, oxu.az reports with reference to the press service of the State Customs Committee. A customs inspection of a vehicle was carried out at the Yug-Astara customs post using a service dog, which was transporting a cargo of apples from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation in transit through the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

“The service dog responded to 4 pallets in the trailer of the vehicle. During the inspection, 126 packages of a narcotic drug – marijuana, with a total weight of 78 kg 332 g together with the package, were found in the boxes on these pallets, hidden from customs control under the cargo of apples. An investigation is underway,” the information says.

It should be noted that at the beginning of this month, employees of the Astara Customs Department, during an inspection of vehicles transporting a cargo of apples from Iran to Russia in transit through the territory of Azerbaijan, discovered 36 kg 20 g and 31 kg 805 g of marijuana.