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Persons detained in Azerbaijan belonged to same network with GRU agents arrested in Georgia

24 January 2007 [01:09] - TODAY.AZ
The group of persons, arrested last week by the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan, belonged to human intelligence of the Russian secret services, online paper Novy region reports, referring to the Baku-based daily Yeni Musavat.

According to the paper, those persons belonged to the same network with the arrested recently in Georgia of the Russian military intelligence (GRU) agents, and this fact is an evidence of proceeding opposition in region between the security services of the US and Russia.

On January 14, staff officers of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan neutralized a criminal group of 17 persons, the online paper says. Four members of the group were arrested, the others detained as suspects. Names and citizenship of the members of the group is not revealed, because of continuation of operatively-search actions.

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