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AGO officials state 28,000 cases probed in past nine months
Officials from the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) said Monday the office has investigated as many as 28,000 criminal cases in the past nine months.
The officials said most of these cases related to crimes relating to internal security, drug trafficking, and violence against women.
The officials said among the thousands of cases lodged with the AGO, 4,305 were drug trafficking cases; 2,088 were of violence against women; 2,329 criminal cases; 1,740 military and detection cases; 1,165 cases of violent assault; 1,650 murder cases; 336 kidnapping cases; 1,366 cases of assault causing injury; and 377 moral crimes, among others.
Meanwhile, there has been growing concerns among the public on the number of targeted killings and the high rate of abductions, especially of businessmen and their family members.
In line with this, AGO spokesman, Jamshid Rasouli stated: “At least 968 cases of abduction have been probed since 1395 Hijri Shamsi Calendar (2016), and more than 1,000 suspects have been prosecuted in connection with these cases.”