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Drugs were found on the land owned by the vice-speaker of Azerbaijani parliament Valeh Aleskerov and his brother Rasim Aleskerov, however no charges are brought against them. Azerbaijani portal "Haqqin.az" reports that the land is located in Karaeri village of Samukh region in Azerbaijan.

It is reported that drug plantation was discovered on this land, and as evidence police confiscated nine bushes of narcotic plants. It is also noted that the police has confiscated drugs, kept in matchboxes.

4 inhabitants of this district were detained in because of this incident. The court detained them for 2 months. Nazim Hasimov, known in Gyanjabasarskaia zone as a "drug kingpin" was among those arrested.

According to the publication, there were no formal charges against the Vice-Speaker’s brother. In the same time drug plantation was found also in the yard of Vugar Goshgarov, located next door to the Aleskerov’s house.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan posted information on its site about the operation carried out against drug traffickers in Samukh region, and Nazim Hasimov’s name is among the arrested. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan notes that they cannot add anything else besides what’s written in the statement posted on their official website.

The U.S. State Department report on the control of drug trafficking was noted that Azerbaijan is a transit country for drugs from Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia to Russia and Europe. The report also said that the number of addicts has increased in Azerbaijan.
Heroin is the most popular drug in Azerbaijan, besides narcotic plants grow there.

In September 2010, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Rustam Usubov stated that about 35% of the drugs illegally produced in Afghanistan are carried through Azerbaijan.

In September 2010, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Rustam Usubov said that through the territory of Azerbaijan carried about 35% of the drugs illegally produced in Afghanistan.

According to a UN report, of "Northern Balkan Route" drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe lies precisely through Azerbaijan.
Drugs freely cross Azerbaijan-Turkey-Iran route. The second, “Old Balkan Route" lies straight through Iran to Turkey. People engaged in the smuggling are mainly assisted by the Azerbaijani and Kurdish population of northern Iran. The third way is through Azerbaijan and the Caucasus which lies through the Turkmen seaport after Turkmenbashi, in Baku. Here the drugs are easily smuggled into Russia.

Moreover, the telegram to former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse, which was published by the WikiLeaks, read that the drug mafia in Russia is largely controlled by ethnic Azerbaijanis. Armenia, at the same time, is not specified as a drugs transit country.