The customs office in Transbaikalia detained hunters Russian jade
ULAN-UDE, July 15. Zabaikalskaya customs officers detained at the international automobile checkpoint "Zabaikalsk" four Chinese citizens who tried to illegally export from Russia schematic maps of subsoil jade in the region, mineral specimens.
"Presumably - a jade" - spokeswoman Zabaikalskaya Customs Julia Filippova, ITAR-TASS.
According to her, the detainees "as there were 2 million rubles, satellite phone, a flash card and CD-ROM and over the content of the latter will work with relevant departments to establish the possible damage to the interests of Russia.
"Operatives detained reported interest in buying Chinese jade in Russia on an industrial scale" - thinned Filippov.
According to the press service of Russia's FSB border control on Zabaikalskij edge and the Republic of Buryatia, in the past year at a border checkpoint "Zabajkalsk" The enhanced smugglers exporting from the region of jade. One of the parties Jade tried to cross-border citizens of China. 265 stones weighing 1.5 tons, they hid in the ceiling openings under the seats and the luggage compartment of a bus. In another case, the mineral was discovered by a citizen of China who drove him to train in boxes from the fruit. Cost of 223 kg of jade has been valued at 334 thousand rubles.
In 2009 the Russian-Chinese border in the Trans-Baikal thwarted attempts to smuggle a total of over 1.7 tons of jade. Another case of contraband Grodekovskoy registered at the customs in the Primorsky region, where the value of seized 333 kg of jade jewelry valued at 313 thousand rubles.
All the ways of the illegal export of jade from Russia are in China. In the Middle Kingdom, this mineral is one of the ancient national symbol. It is believed that the product of this stone should be in every home, to grant its owners wealth and longevity. China has treated the various shades of jade green color is from $ 300 per kilogram, and particularly valuable, white jade, - up to $ 10 thousand
In Russia, 13 of 16 explored deposits of jade, which is extracted by opencast methods, are in Buryatia, which provides 90%of the Russian volume of its output.
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