Azerbaijan, Ganja, 25 June / Trend corr V. Mammadov/ "Within 6 months of this year, western regional department of Azerbaijan's Central Administration against Drugs seized 50kg of drugs from illegal turnover," department reported to Trend on 25 June.
A total of 46.204kg of the drugs was marijuana, 3.500kg was hashish. Eight kilograms of wild hemp bushes was eliminated.
In the aforementioned period, 36 drugs-related criminal cases were registered in the western region, which is by 13 cases more than in the same period of 2007.
According to the department, 27 cases out of registered 36 are drugs sale and 9 - drugs storage. Twenty people were made answerable in this connection.
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