State Security Service and State Border Service detained smugglers with a large consignment of drugs

The State Security Service and the State Border Service of Azerbaijan continue joint operational and investigative measures to combat smuggling and drug trafficking, report.az Internet news portal reports.

So, on the basis of information that a group of people, including citizens of Iran, was engaged in illegal drug trafficking by prior agreement, while transporting 37 kg 550 grams of dried marijuana in the cargo compartment of his car, an Azerbaijani citizen, a resident of the Sabirabad district, Atashov Rakhim Haji oglu 1987 the year of birth.

Citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Latif Mehriban Mohsen, born in 1966, and Parsa Jaffarlu Amrza Ramazan, born in 1980, were detained at the state border, without identification documents. It was established that, having illegally crossed the state border, they handed over a large consignment of drugs to Rakhim Atashov in the Imishli region.

As it became known, Latif Mehriban was earlier detained in Azerbaijan in 2008 for the same acts and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 2014, he was extradited to his country of origin to serve the remainder of his sentence, but continued to commit similar criminal acts after being released early in Iran.

According to the criminal case initiated by the State Security Service, Rakhim Atashov is charged under Articles 206.3.2 (Smuggling of narcotic drugs by a group of persons by prior agreement), 234.4.1 and 234.4. conspiracy to sell).

Latif Mehriban and Amrza Parsa Jaffarlu are accused under the mentioned articles and under Article 318.2 (illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan by a group of persons who were in a preliminary agreement) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a measure of restraint in the form of detention was chosen for the detainees by a court decision.

The necessary measures in the criminal case are ongoing.

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