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Three Azerbaijani citizens who were on the international wanted list have been extradited to the republic from Russia. As the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office told Report, the extradition was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Convention “On Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Cases” of October 7, 2002.

At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan, the Russian side satisfied the request for the extradition of Abdullayev Inframin Elbrus oglu, Yusufov Emin Boris oglu and Mehdiyev Natig Iskender oglu.

These individuals were on the international wanted list for evading investigation, since there were reasonable suspicions against them of committing crimes under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

“Those detained in Russia were delivered to Azerbaijan accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice,” the department emphasized.

An attempt to smuggle a large consignment of drugs to Azerbaijan has been thwarted. According to APA, the information about this was disseminated by the press center of the State Border Service.

Measures are being taken to ensure reliable protection of the maritime borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, strengthen control over compliance with the regime in the Caspian Sea, and combat illegal trafficking of drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors.

On March 6, at the service station of the Coast Guard Service of the State Border Service, during an inspection of a boat belonging to residents of the Lankaran region engaged in fishing in the territorial waters of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea – Mustafayev Dayanet Aladdin oglu (born in 1979) and Agaoglu Elshan Alish oglu (born in 1980), a border patrol found 10 kg 385 grams of marijuana.

Operational and investigative activities are ongoing.

18 wanted persons were detained yesterday, Report informs citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

As a result of operational activities carried out by police officers on March 10, 18 persons wanted for fraud were detained and handed over to the investigation.