Smugglers were detained in Russia with 286 kilos of amber 19:32

In the Kaliningrad region, criminal cases were opened against many residents of the region under the article “large-scale smuggling of strategically important resources by an organized group”. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Department of the Regional Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

According to investigators, on September 5, six men tried to transport amber weighing 286 kg and worth approximately 2.4 million rubles in a truck from Russia to the Republic of Lithuania. The driver of the vehicle did not have documents regarding granulated raw materials.

One of the suspects was detained by officers of the regional department of the FSB after passing customs control at the Chernyshevskoye checkpoint in the Nesterovsky district.

While 5 defendants in the criminal case have been taken into custody, the issue of issuing an injunction against them is being decided.

Earlier, two men in the Moscow region imprisoned For smuggling 813 kg of amber.



Source: Gazeta

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