Vnukovo airport workers stopped a 42-year-old Russian woman with radioactive luggage. About this Federal Customs Service (FCS) of the Russian Federation reported on the official Telegram channel.
As inspectors said, the woman arrived in Moscow from India in transit via the UAE. When a citizen passed through the “green” corridor, the radiation monitoring system showed that the permissible values were exceeded by 11 times.
Investigators found black sand in the passenger’s luggage. The woman said she had collected it on the Indian Ocean coast and brought it to make homemade cosmetics. Experts discovered thorium-232, a natural radionuclide, in the sand.
Since the import of such substances into Russia is prohibited by the decision of Rospotrebnadzor, the sand was confiscated and placed in a special room for long-term storage.
Before that at Domodedovo airport was detained Vietnamese citizen with radioactive luggage.
In a package that came from Thailand before to create boxing gloves containing marijuana worth one million rubles.
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Source: Gazeta
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