Bars were seized at the border, and here the purity is above 80 , everything is fine here, no no smuggling, you are not a smuggler, of course not, are you just a gift from friends, four rectangular bars, witnesses see, smuggled gold was found in the cargo transport, a bundle of yellow metal was found in the technological hole, as it turned out to be gold, 16 members of a criminal community detained are under threat. Methane needs to be extracted if this is your calling. About 40 tons of gold are officially mined in transbaikalia every year. Such developments are usually carried out industrially. But it is unknown how much precious metal passes through the hands of black miners. As a rule, illegal miners operating in the tag sell the bullion to buyers, who look for an opportunity to transport it abroad. For fabulous money, Border Guards, customs officers and Police Officers of transbaikalia exposed International Organized Crime a community whose members managed to remove more than a ton of gold bars from russia in a year, how smuggling of the precious metal was organized, how much Treasure Hunters earned, who oversaw the illegal gold business. We took up this matter and carried it out. Your investigation. Dust from the uneven country road hits the lens of the dvr camera. This chase is one of the stages of a largescale special operation by the Border Department of the fsb of russia in the transbakalsky region. A White Toyota Corolla rushes past the rumbling cows, it seems that she is about to crash somewhere, but the old foreign car is almost being pursued, behind the wheel, according to operatives, is a member of a local group that has been stealing gold for years, after a couple of moments its all over, the driver is detained. The theft and smuggling of precious metal is still a big problem for our country, and the obsession with gold is not decreasing. We went to the transbaikal territory to see how the fight against illegal miners and buyers is currently being waged. And what about represents a modern gold rush . Our film crew is in the north of the karymsky region, here in the deep taiga there is Industrial Mining of precious metal, from a birds eye view. You can see workings, excavations for many kilometers, the landscape is cosmic, here people are literally walking on gold, this is the lunar landscape around us and Just One Team is working, what are you going to do now, we ll take a sample, it turns out, yes, lets try , that is, there could be gold here, yes, yes, well, there should be. Youll be lucky, i hope the mining foreman fills an ordinary metal basin with earth, begins to methodically wash it, drains the water several times, and finally, at the very bottom, sparkling grains of gold appear, as if they have almost reached the end, and the gold is not yet visible, well, no, but i can see it in your eyes , that you have already found something, we look there and we see that this black sand glows with such a goldenyellow color, no, here is the gold, where the gold is yellow, here the yellow is gold, uhhuh, well here, probably, tenths of a gram, yes, yes, yes, yes, here is a piece of this gold, in this oldfashioned way , you can mine kilograms of gold, and then hand over to the state. A kilogram, of course, but you can wash it, you can wash it, you can definitely wash it on bread, okay, so why dont you throw it away now, no, itll all work, at least put it into use, put it into circulation, okay, on this development, according to specialists, you can mine at least 5 kg of precious metal in a month, here there is heavy equipment, excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, this is an outlandish machine. This is a vibrating screen, an industrial device it turns out, what is it, how does it work . And its powered by a 150 kw diesel power plant, and theres an eccentric on top of the engine, it swings it on springs, we bring the rock here with an excavator, it s all washed off with water, everything goes through, fine sand falls into the deck onto the carpets, and accordingly, the stones fall here separately, and you take out the stones, wash the sand, and this . Everything is washed, we serve the dirty, we take out the clean everything together, it turns out, well, Something Like this, of course, you saw some pretty large nuggets gold, here, here, not here, not like that, but these are the size, if you can show it like this, well, ive seen it in my life, well, like this, maybe like this, but there is some kind of desire, well, its not good to steal, no, why its more expensive for himself, he pays his salary, everything is fine, everything is fine, there are black diggers around here , well, there are probably a lot of them. Theft in artels is really not held in high esteem, because if someone is caught redhanded, it will be impossible to get away with it, they can easily beat you up, and only then will there be a criminal case and a trial, but otherwise quite tolerable Living Conditions in the taiga, very decent official salary from 200,000 rubles. But still, the thirst for easy money sometimes wins. Lets move all the remaining borrowings to the capital of transbaikalia, chita. Its in full swing here. Investigation of a criminal case of gold bullion smuggling. This criminal case was initiated based on operational materials provided by the Border Service by Police Officers. Based on the elements of crimes provided for in part one of part two of article 210 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation the federation is precisely a criminal community. According to part three of article 226. 1 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation, namely smuggling. Illegal movement from the territory of the Russian Federation abroad of precious metals, namely gold, and also initiated under the article of part five of article 191 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation, illegal security, movement of precious metal. 30 people were under investigation, all of them citizens of different states; among those arrested were gold miners and couriers who transported precious metals. Buyers, the socalled financiers also came under criminal prosecution, these are the people who paid for illegal goods, thats all the management. The organizers are citizen akhmetov and citizen daragimkhanov, who essentially led the subgroup. According to the Security Forces, mail ragimkhanov was the leader of the transbaikal branch of the organized criminal group. There were more than 20 people under his command. His Group Specialized directly in smuggling gold across the borders of the Russian Federation. In his activities he relied on the Railway Workers involved. Criminal activity, he directly transferred the gold to them, but they were already delivering it abroad. Mail ragimkhanov and Sergei Akhmetov were under covert surveillance, when it became clear that they were really involved in the illegal gold business, they decided to detain them, but this turned out to be not so easy, for example , they started a real chase for Sergei Akhmetov. How on august 11 , 2022, he took gold bars from a courier in the vicinity of a border village transbaikalsky. We showed these shots at the beginning of our program. Feeling surveillance, Sergei Akhmetov pressed the gas. Tried to escape pursuit, Border Control operatives chased his car for several kilometers, and stopped akhmetov in the area of the city of borze; in the car they found 8 kg of gold bars intended for sending abroad. Rumors about this operation spread quite quickly throughout the region. Mail ragimkhanov lay low, he hid for several days and communicated on. Ragimkhanov was found in zabaikalsk, here he is bought an inconspicuous old house in which he kept the illegally purchased gold, the reputable businessman was arrested and sent to pretrial detention. A search was conducted in regimkhanovs house, the gold was not found, but the businessman managed to hand it over. Him with his foreign partner, this is the place where he hid the jewelry, they discovered it, the hiding place was in this burntout stove. It was clear to the Border Control officers that without the active help of foreigners, neither ragimkhanov nor akhmetov could simply work. The first and most important obstacle is the language barrier. Introduce yourself, dear, introduce yourself, introduce yourself, surname first name, surname first name, pasha, what are you a citizen of, and a citizen of what . Everything is fine. Is there anything forbidden in the house . There is nothing, now well figure it out, do you understand spoken russian . Yes, a little, a little, you know, you cant read. No, no, sit down, let me sit down, you have something prisoner in your house, weapons, no, drugs, no, nothing, no, we have a criminal case filed for illegal trafficking of fighting metal, gold, we need to look at yours home, everything connected, we are everything well take it, okay, okay, take it away. Is yours . No, its just a truk, well, theres yours, so smart im so smart in my safenley , also known as pasha, in a soap box there were two bags of gold bars, the man was taken to the transbaikal linear department of the Russian Ministry of internal affairs on transport and interrogated it became clear that the chinese served as a coordinator, connecting illegal buyers of fight metal in transbaikalia with his highranking curators. Meanwhile, the operatives were on the tail of wang qiuzian, the man was detained at the moment when he picked up the goods and headed by car towards zabaikalsk. In this box, four rectangular shaped objects were found, now. Coordinators take money to pay suppliers, it turned out that several financiers worked in the organized gold criminal community, their task was to collect money from criminal Partners Trading in the transbaikalia market, a kind of quitrent, one of these black accountants turned out to be liu xiufan, the woman was detained in chita, they found with her an ordinary plastic handbag filled with packs of bills different values, liu xiufang was unable to explain the origin of the money, and she was also arrested. Soon, employees of the Border Department of the fsb of russia. With a seat there are several homemade gold bars, what is this, wait, step away from the car, what is this . Forbidden, or what . Lets be honest, i found it, i found it, where they found it, they said where, well, what is forbidden there . Can i sit down for this . Chernyak refused to hand over his suppliers and ended up under investigation himself. The next courier, roman lopatin, turned out to be extremely inventive and didnt even blink an eye when the Border Guards asked to open the trunk. Jack . I bought it a week ago, you personally bought it, yes, this is your jack, this particular green one. For such a vehicle, which aroused suspicion, well, yes, this also aroused suspicion, a decision was made to open it, well , gold bars were found inside the metal rod, filled with oil. 16 ingots of yellow metal were hidden in the jack; they were sent for examination. This metal after application reagent indicates that no reaction occurred. This indicates that this metal contains gold, that is, it is gold. Approximately somewhere around 800, 850 samples, not higher. The fsb officers no longer doubted that they had traced the criminal community and continued to work. The operatives managed to establish the name of the owner of one of the mines in teve, where precious metal was openly stolen and then brought to zabaikalsk. It was alexander shlensky. The mine officially handed over part of the gold to refining in 2022, the mining license expired, during this year, 2022 gold was actually mined illegally. Do you know how much gold you gave away . Again approximately . Well, each batch, each of his batches sent to vasiliev was about 1012 kg and such batches, well, we know approximately. Shlensky was detained at the Traffic Police post when he, together with a counterfeiter , drove up to the city in his kruzak, hands on the car, hands on the car. Several more arrests followed, this was bollot rabdanov, another financier of the group, he was arrested early in the morning, completely sleepy, hands on. Bolod vasilyevich, where are the other people in the house . Rabdanov bogs, hands, hands behind his back, here he is, last name, very, date of birth, and you say, well, thats great. Do you know why they were detained . Well, now well tell you. Rabdano was presented with a search warrant. A criminal case has been opened. Several tens of millions of rubles were found in the house of bolot rabdanovo. The man was charged. And put him under arrest. And finally, another victory for the Border Guards. At the time of the transfer of gold, they took the prospector sergei bogovin in public buyer temer lana, plieva. The latter lived in a distant taiga village, vershina darosunsky, several hundred kilometers from shcheta. And thats how it was. Whats here . What s here . Did you get it yourself, where did you get it . Found . Where . Here, now i found it. Next to pliev is sergei bogovin, this man, as the Security Forces found out, is the foreman of a section of a large mine in yakutia, where gold was mined. Are these items yours . Where did you get it . Like where did i get it . Did we get queza . Where . No, what about the town . 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