Over the past year, about 810 kilograms of drugs have been seized on 2,935 crime cases in Azerbaijan, says the 2015 report by the State Commission on Combating Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking under the Interior Ministry, says APA. According to the report, the seized drugs include 575 kg (70.9 percent) of marihuana, 138 […]
Azerbaijan’s border guards on January 15, 2016 detained one Indian and nine Bangladeshi citizens while attempting to illegally cross into Iran, the State Border Service told APA. Measures are underway to prevent violations of the state border for the purpose of illegal migration, said the State Service.
The Main Anti-Corruption Department under Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General made public the report on the outcomes of 2015, says haqqin.az. Deputy Prosecutor General, head of the Main Anti-Corruption Department under the Prosecutor General, Kamran Aliyev said at the press conference that the department conducted preliminary investigations over 460 crimes in 2015. “145 of the investigations were launched by […]
Azerbaijan has exposed a criminal group that intended to forcibly change the constitutional structure and create a Sharia state, told APA in the meeting of the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime on the results of 2015 and objectives for the future. Measures taken against religious radicalism revealed a criminal group that intended […]
Three persons engaging in illicit drug trafficking have been detained in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, police told APA. In a series of search operations, the Drug Enforcement Department has found and seized more than 19kg marihuana from Guba district resident Marhamat Sadirov (1993), Baku resident Nahid Hasanov (1987), and formerly imprisoned Baku resident Rashad Azimov […]
A man has been detained for helping several people, believed to be an adherent of the Wahhabi sect, cross from Azerbaijan into Georgia. Police received information of several Wahhabi adherents having illegally crossed the Azerbaijan-Georgia border from the territory of Balaken district, law enforcement agencies told APA. As a result of an operation conducted based on […]
A 48-year-old woman was killed by unknown persons in her house in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, the police told APA. As a result of the investigative and operational measures taken, it was revealed that the murder was ordered by the deceased’s husband. The investigation revealed that the man paid his two relatives 2,000 manats for the murder […]
Under Article 274 (treason), the Sabail district court has sentenced Nardaran resident Natiq Karimov to four months’ pretrial detention, APA to the district court reported. Note that, Natiq Karimov was detained on Thursday, 6 January 2016 by law enforcement agencies.
On January 7, 2016 Azerbaijani law-enforcement agencies detained chairman of Nardaran council of elders Natiq Karimov, haqqin.az informs. According to the information, criminal case has been initiated against him. N.Karimov is accused under Article 274 of the Criminal Code (high treason, namely action deliberately committed by a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan against sovereignty, […]
Police have revealed the names of those suspected of murdering a gold dealer in Baku, APA reports.. The murder committed under unknown circumstances in the capital’s Nasimi district was disclosed as a result of the urgent investigative and operational measures of law-enforcement bodies, the Baku Main Police Office and Prosecutor General’s Office said in a […]
