Baku: An attempt to smuggle a large quantity of narcotic substances into Azerbaijan has been thwarted, the Press Center of the State Border Service reported to APA. Efforts to ensure reliable protection of the state border and to combat the illegal circulation of narcotic substances, psychotropic substances, and their precursors are successfully continuing.
According to Azeri-Press News Agency, on August 15, in the service area of the ‘Lankaran’ border detachment of the Border Troops of the State Border Service, an attempt to violate the state border from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan was prevented.
As a result of border search and operational measures carried out, a total of 40 kilograms and 900 grams of narcotic substances, including 37 kilograms and 900 grams of marijuana, 3 kilograms of opium, and 5,000 methadone M-40 tablets containing narcotic substances, were detected and seized from the service area.
Operational-investigative measures on the fact are ongoing.