Article 234.4.3 (Illegal acquisition or possession for the purpose of sale, manufacture, production, processing, transportation, shipment, or sale of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances in large quantities) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

On the same day, the court sentenced Ganja resident Rakhman Jabbarov to four months of pretrial detention in a pretrial detention facility during the preliminary investigation, which was subsequently extended.