The Main Drug Enforcement Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) conducted operations against illicit drug trafficking in the capital and regions.
According to MIA, operations took place in Baku, Sumgait, and Masalli district.
Four previously convicted individuals – Aliaga Nagiyev, Javid Agasiyev, Mikayil Khudashov, and Hikmat Huseynov – were detained.
From them, 40 kg of opium, marijuana with harmful additives, and 500 psychotropic methadone pills were seized.
The detained individuals were found to be drug couriers acting on orders of drug traffickers living abroad.
Criminal cases have been initiated, and a preventive measure of arrest was chosen by court decision.












