The sale of horse meat was prevented in Barda region.

APA's Karabakh bureau reports that a person engaged in the sale of illegal horsemeat was detained as a result of operational search measures conducted by Barda District Police Department based on the information received.

Born in 1979, Babayev Rovshan Qinyaz oghlu, who lives on Samad Vurgun Street in Barda city, was secretly caught slaughtering 2 head of horses in the yard of his house.

110 kg of horse meat was confiscated from him and handed over to the Barda district branch of the Food Safety Agency.

The meat was sent to the laboratory for examination.

It should be noted that Rovshan Babayev was arrested in 2019 while taking horse meat to Baku to sell.

An investigation is underway at the Barda District Police Department.