“Found” gold in the Amur region could hire a “black diggers” – RIA Novosti

12:0814.10.2016

(updated: 12:13 14.10.2016)

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BLAGOVESHCHENSK, 14 Jul — RIA Novosti. the Head of the Zeya district of the Amur region Andrey Larichkin told RIA Novosti that the gold in the forests of the Zeya district of the Amur region often “find” people employing “black diggers” — those who illegally produces precious metal.

on Friday, the Prosecutor’s office of the region reported that the inhabitants of the North region will be tried for allegedly found in the woods a jar of gold, which was more than 880 grams of placer gold valued at more than 2.4 million rubles to the man threatens till five years of imprisonment.

“the Main activity in our area — gold mining, there are several large cooperatives, the mine “pioneer” GC “Petropavlovsk”, so the instances of such “finds” is several for the year. Because gold is including wash illegal. And the easiest way then to explain where it is, to say: “found”. This, of course, the matter of the investigation, but I think that this man hired the people who cleaned up the gold, and decided to sell, was detained. Wash black diggers small amounts, about two kilograms,” — said lozhechkin RIA Novosti.

As previously reported, in August a resident of the city of Zeya received a suspended sentence and a fine for what he was carrying in his car 3.2 kg of pure gold worth 9.6 million rubles, a parcel he found in a nearby Tyndinsky district. In June 2015 citizen of China hid the gold in a secret place in the forest two district — before leaving home, he laid in a stash of around four kilograms of the metal to six million rubles. The FSB detained the foreigner in April 2016, when he returned to Russia for the gold.

“there was a case two or three years ago, the local residents of the Zeya were detained at a traffic police checkpoint in Blagoveshchensk (capital of Amur oblast — ed.), gold found in interior of the car,” added lozhechkin.