Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 8 / Trend /
The Azerbaijani border guards detained 127 people who were wanted by the police in July, the Azerbaijani State Border Service reported. The detainees were transferred to the law enforcement agencies.
The border guards prevented 38 violations of the state border and arrested 74 people.
Some 52 persons were arrested in 27 cases. The officers arrested a person in one case with other person's document, two individuals in two cases when illegally crossing the state border.
The border guards also seized 17.232 kilograms of narcotic substances from trafficking.
Last month border guards confiscated contraband worth 730,000 manat in 62 cases of smuggling.
The officers arrested 8 people in 5 cases for violating the border regime as a result of measures taken to protect sea borders and 5,545 meters of fish-net were revealed and seized.