{"id":39670,"date":"2025-05-03T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iolr.org\/?p=39670"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:32:51","slug":"more-than-63-kg-of-marijuana-seized-from-watermelons-at-the-astara-customs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=39670&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"More than 63 kg of marijuana seized from watermelons at the Astara customs office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As a result of the activities carried out by the employees of the Astara Customs Department of the State Customs Committee (SCC) of Azerbaijan, an attempt to smuggle a large batch of drugs across the customs border, hidden in an unusual way &#8212; inside watermelons, was prevented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/oxu.az\/ru\/kriminal\/narkotiki-v-arbuzah-bolee-63-kg-marihuany-izyato-na-tamozhne-astary\">Oxu.Az<\/a> with reference to the SCC, the Astara Customs Department inspected a vehicle carrying a cargo of &#171;fresh watermelons&#187; from Iran to Russia in transit through the territory of our country. When checked on a stationary X-ray machine, the cargo aroused suspicion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">During a thorough inspection, a service dog of the Canine Service responded to 42 boxes. In 84 watermelons from these boxes, in foil-wrapped packages, drugs hidden from customs control were found &#8212; dried marijuana weighing a total of 63 kg 417 g together with the packaging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">An investigation is underway into this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the activities carried out by the employees of the Astara Customs Department of the State Customs Committee (SCC) of Azerbaijan, an attempt to smuggle a large batch of drugs across the customs border, hidden in an unusual way &#8212; inside watermelons, was prevented. As reported by Oxu.Az with reference to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39671,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39670\/revisions\/39671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}