Customs officers in Kaliningrad handed over a rare woolly rhino skull sample found in one of the packages to the Ministry of Culture. They tried to illegally remove him from the territory of the Russian Federation. In this respect reported In the press service of the Kaliningrad regional customs.
The skull belonged to a Russian citizen and he had sent it in a package from Yakutia to the USA via Kaliningrad. The shipment was detained at customs because it did not have the required documentation. An administrative lawsuit was initiated under the article “Failure to declare the goods or false declaration”.
The skull was submitted for examination, and experts determined that it belonged to an extinct species of woolly rhinoceros and was of interest to paleontologists. The value of the sample was determined at 125 thousand rubles. In October 2023, the court declared the contents of the parcel unclaimed and handed over the skull to the state.
Previously a Chinese citizen I tried to take it off Sperm whale teeth, mammoth teeth and amber from the Russian Federation.