Seven border guards arrested for drug trafficking

Baku/25.07.22/Turan: The high-profile case of the arrest of four border guards involved in drug trafficking on July 21 ongoing. On Monday, the Prosecutor General's Office reported that the criminal group involved in drug trafficking included not four, but seven border guards.

Thus, the border patrol servicemen -  Tural Osamnov, Shamil Abbasov, Habil Najafov, Kamran Jafarov, Nurlan Gasymov, Seymur Azadkhanzadeh, Ilkin Gasymzadeh and "other officials", using their official position, created a criminal group to deliver narcotic drugs from Iran and transfer them to a civilian – Hikmet Khalili.

The participants of this criminal group from Iran violated the state border and transported a large batch of narcotic drugs to the territory of the village of Mehdili in the Jabrayil region. Four of the border guards were detained by the border patrol on July 21 while trying to pick up the hidden drugs.

Note that 94.3 kg of various drugs were seized from them, including marijuana, heroin, methadone, methamphetamine, etc. Another member of the criminal group, a civilian Bashir Guliyev, is wanted.

All the above-mentioned persons have been arrested, a criminal case initiated against them on charges of large-scale illegal drug trafficking and smuggling, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

It should be noted that this is the first such case of mass participation of border guards in drug trafficking. -02D-