Three held in Oğuz with cannabis plants and firearms after police raids
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said Oğuz district police detained S.İbrahimov, E.İsmayılov and T.Haşımov and found drugs, cannabis plants they had cultivated and firearms. A court ordered the three held in pre-trial detention and a criminal case was opened.
Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry press service said Oğuz District Police carried
out operations against people trafficking and cultivating drugs and illegally
keeping firearms.[1]The police account published in Azerbaijani gives the
third man’s surname as T.Haşımov, while the Russian-language report spells it
T.Gaşimov.[2]
Drugs, cannabis plants the men had cultivated and firearms were found on them.[1]A criminal case was opened over the findings.[1]A court ordered all
three men held in pre-trial detention.[2]
APA reported the operation under the headline that three people had been
detained over drug trafficking in Oğuz.[3]The four reports were all published
on 30 September 2026.[3]Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry is the authority that
publicised the arrests.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
3
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants
Activity
Trafficking, Cultivation
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
AZƏRTACazertag.azAZOğuzda narkotiklərin dövriyyəsi ilə məşğul olan şəxslər saxlanılıblar VİDEO
1news.az1news.azRUНаркотики, плантации и оружие: в Огузе задержаны вооруженные наркоторговцы
APAapa.azAZOğuzda narkotik dövriyyəsi ilə bağlı 3 nəfər saxlanılıb
No weight of drugs, number of plants, area or value was published, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The statements were all issued on 30 September 2026 and give no separate date for the operation or the arrests.
The Interior Ministry statements do not specify how much of the seized material was cannabis by weight; the cultivated plants are described only as narcotic-containing plants (çətənə, cannabis).
No later court decision, charge list or outcome was reported in any of the opened articles.
The suspects are named only by initials, and the third man's surname is transliterated both as Haşımov and Gaşimov.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in AZƏRTAC: Officers detained three men, identified by their initials as S.İbrahimov, E.İsmayılov and T.Haşımov.
Azerbaijan's State Security Service detained two Azerbaijani citizens as they collected a drone-delivered drug consignment near the Jabrayil refugee settlement in Bilasuvar District, and said it seized 14 kg 158 g of marijuana from them. The service said an Iranian national organised the smuggling run, and a criminal case was opened.
Between January and September 2026 Azerbaijan seized 8.4 tonnes of drugs, including 7,236 kg of marijuana, 253 kg of hashish and 21,355 cannabis plants, the State Commission reported. Police detected 6,247 drug cases and held 4,352 people criminally liable, while the Interior Ministry put its own nine-month seizures at 6,443 kg.
Charged 4,352Plants destroyed 21,355Cannabis 7.49053271 t
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said officers detained Ramil Aliyev and Nihat Abdurrahmanov in Absheron and Garadagh districts and found hashish resin, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine and opium among 57 kg of drugs and 1,981 methadone tablets. A court ordered both men held in pre-trial detention over a smuggling case.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said its drug enforcement directorate arrested three previously convicted men, Ali Mamedov, Ravan Huseynov and Ilkin Akhmedov, in Astara and Qaradağ districts and seized 43 kg 300 g of marijuana from them. A court ordered the three held in pre-trial detention and a criminal case was opened.
