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Smuggling attempt foiled in Azerbaijan’s Caspian waters

Xəzər dənizində qaçaqmalçılıq faktı aşkarlanıb

Goods being illegally transported across the maritime border were seized during an operation by State Border Service personnel.

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Smuggled items have been found in the part of the Caspian Sea belonging to Azerbaijan.

The State Border Service told Operative Information Center-OMM.

It said that, through coordinated action by the Coast Guard’s coastal surveillance unit, a technical observation post and a border vessel, 8 kilograms and 600 grams of narcotics and a 350-meter-long synthetic net in a sack were found and seized 20 nautical miles from the coast in the Lankaran roadstead, in the part of the Caspian Sea belonging to Azerbaijan.

Operational and investigative measures in the case are ongoing.

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