The State Border Service (SBS) continues to take necessary measures to ensure reliable protection of maritime borders, strengthen control over regime rules in the Caspian Sea and combat smuggling.

The SBS told APA that a Mitsubishi Pajero with two people in it was found in the service area of ​​the Kaladahna Coast Control Unit of the Southern Regional Department of the SBS at about 01:05 on February 21, about 40 meters south of the Shahagaji village. The border guard noticed that a car with registration number 10-RS-565 approached the area, one of the occupants fell down and behaved suspiciously, and looking around, he took a bag hidden in the bushes.

The suspects, who did not obey the "Stop" order of the border guard, were detained while trying to take the bag from the area and drive away from the scene.

They were identified as Agayev Gurban Farhad oglu, born in 1978, and Agayeva Gulshan Vagif gizi, residents of Astara region. He opened fire several times, slightly injuring two members of the border guard.

Immediately after the warning shots were fired into the air by the naryad serving in the area, immediate measures were taken, and the servicemen bravely and professionally detained the criminal.

A total of 16 kg 965 grams of drugs (4 kg 085 grams of marijuana, 9 kg 920 grams of opium, 2 kg 090 grams of methamphetamine and 870 grams of heroin) were found in the bag taken from the scene.

Taking into account Agayev's repeated convictions and recognition as a drug dealer in the area where he lived, the necessary operational-investigative measures were continued around him. kg 100 grams of marijuana-like drug were found and confiscated.

The investigation is under way.

Aysel Şahmar