Azerbaijan detains trafficker, who accustomed youth to drug upon instruction from Iran

A video has gone viral on social media showing a man selling drugs and insulting Azerbaijan's national values on the orders of a certain "Mohammed" living in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

As Caliber.Az was informed by the Interior Ministry's press service, in hot pursuit, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Drugs identified and detained the man who turned out to be the previously convicted Shukur Mirzayev. A large amount of heroin and marijuana was found and seized from him.

A criminal case has been initiated on the fact, Mirzayev has been arrested, and measures are being taken to detain other foreign and local members of the drug network.