In Buryatia, “black prospectors” illegally extracted jade for 9 million rubles

Residents of Buryatia illegally extracted 178 stones of jade with a total weight of 2.7 tons and cost more than 9 million rubles. In the criminal case against the suspects, the prosecutor’s office approved the indictment, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation reports.

According to the agency, the men mined the mineral without the necessary license. To work, they used a gasoline jackhammer and a construction scrap.

The stones were transported to the place of temporary storage on a snowmobile with homemade sleds. In total, law enforcement officers established the fact of extraction of 178 fragments of jade.

The materials of the criminal case were sent to the court for consideration after the indictment was approved. Suspects will be held accountable for illegal extraction of natural resources.

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