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During preventive measures carried out by employees of the Binagadi district police department, two Kalashnikov assault rifles, 59 cartridges and two magazines were discovered and seized in the populated villages of Balajary and Khojasan, oxu.az reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Also, during operations carried out by department employees from the beginning of February to the present day, a total of 51 suspects in organizing drug trafficking in the Binagadi region were detained.

The detainees were found to have 7 kg of various types of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. During this period, citizens voluntarily handed over 13 firearms and 3,600 rounds of ammunition to the police.

The Supreme Court held a hearing on the cassation appeal against the verdict against Mirjavad Gashimov and Zakir Kazimov, accused of abuse of power and receiving a bribe, oxu.az reports. At a meeting chaired by Judge Vidadi Jafarov, it was announced that one of the accused had withdrawn his complaint.

The Lankaran Grave Crimes Court sentenced each to 8 years and 6 months in prison. The Shirvan Court of Appeal did not satisfy their complaint.

A suspect in a series of thefts was detained in the Imishli district, oxu.az reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is noted that as a result of activities carried out by employees of the regional police department, Alim Mammadli, suspected of committing a number of crimes in the district, was detained.

During the investigation, it turned out that he illegally entered five houses, committed a theft worth 10,000 manats, and also stole gold jewelry worth about 35,000 manats.

A preventive measure in the form of arrest was chosen against the detainee by a court decision.

An investigation into this fact is ongoing.

In January-February of this year, 1 ton 212 kg 963.32 g of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances with a total value of 34 million 344 thousand manats was seized from illicit trafficking in Azerbaijan. Report informs, this is stated in the report of the permanent working group of the State Commission for Combating Drug Addiction and Illicit Drug Trafficking.

As a result of comprehensive investigative measures carried out by law enforcement agencies in this area, 1,980 criminal facts were identified. Of these, 566 are associated with the illegal trade in narcotic drugs, 1,411 with their illegal acquisition and storage, 3 with the illegal sowing and cultivation of narcotic plants.

17 citizens of foreign countries were brought to justice, from whom 96 kg 387.564 g of various types of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances were confiscated.

The investigation of the criminal case against another member of the transnational organized cybercriminal group Sekrieru Ion Aleksandrovich, extradited to Azerbaijan by the State Security Service, has been completed. Report informs, the case was transferred for consideration to the Sumgayit Court of Serious Crimes.

According to the indictment, Ion Secrieru and other members of the group operating abroad, through a malicious program introduced into the computer systems of Azerbaijani banks via email, obtained information about the names, passwords and other key functions of network entities. After this, members of the group arrived in the country, and approaching ATMs installed in Baku and Sumgayit, without entering any cards or resorting to physical intervention, upon an external command using the Internet, they took the money and left the country.

Lengthy operational investigative measures made it possible to identify and extradite to the country one by one members of the group who are citizens of different countries and hiding in different countries.

In this regard, Ion Sekrieru, as well as foreign citizens Danila Dorin Konstantinovich and Gubchak Sergey Aksentievich, accused by the State Security Service under articles 273.4 and 177.3.2 (robbery by illegal interference with a computer system or computer data) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were brought to Azerbaijan and sentenced by the court to severe punishment.