Azerbaijan, Baku, April 23/Trend, K. Zarbaliyeva
In the first quarter of the year, Azerbaijani customs officers identified 64 criminal facts and seized 68 persons who had committed the crimes.
Of the identified crimes, 48 were related to smuggling, the State Customs Committee (SCC) told Trend. Thirty-three facts of smuggling are connected with the illicit turnover of drugs.
Customs officers seized more than 36 kilograms of drugs in the reported period.
In the first quarter of the year the SCC identified 4,920 administrative infringements, including 54 related to smuggling, 29 related to the absence of customs declaration, and 3 related to the import without documentary stamps and other infringements.