Bakı / 13.06.19 / Turan: Law-enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan and Russia on June 3-10 held a complex of joint operational-search and preventive measures under the provisional name Border.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, the purpose of the operation was to expose and neutralize transnational criminal groups, detect illegal circulation of drugs and weapons, and identify illegal channels of receipt of financial and material means to prevent them.
During operational activities in the border regions of the Republic of Dagestan of the Russian Federation, as well as in the Gusar, Guba, Khachmaz, Sheki, Gabala, Balaken, Zagatala, Gakh and Oguz regions of Azerbaijan, 31 people from the wanted lists were found, including 16 wanted by the Russian Federation.
Also six people known as missing were found. In addition, 63 people wanted because of their debts to the state were detained.
The following illegally stored weapons were detected and seized: 8 submachine guns, 2 grenade launchers, 1 machine gun, 6 pistols, 100 rifles, 37 grenades, 36 weapon stores, 23 fuses for grenades, 15 pieces of military equipment, and 7,716 cartridges of various calibers.
Thirteen facts of drug turnover were identified. 10,753 cannabis bushes with a total weight of up to 5 thousand tons were destroyed. Such joint comprehensive activities will be continued in the future, it was reported. -16D-
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