[000:01:00;00] 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 the merchant, who is looking for an opportunity to transport it abroad for fabulous money. border guards, customs officers and police of transbaikalia. exposed an international organized criminal community, whose members managed to remove more than a ton from russia in a year gold bars. how smuggling of precious metal was organized, how much treasure hunters earned, who supervised the illegal gold business. we took up this matter and conducted our

investigation. dust from a rough country road pours into the lens of the dvr camera; this chase is one of the stages of a large-scale special operation by the border department of the fsb of russia in the trans-baikal territory.

a toyota rushes past grazing cows. white, it seems that it is about to crash somewhere, but the old foreign car is almost moving away from pursuit, 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, it’s 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 trans-baikal territory to see how the fight against illegal miners and buyers is currently being waged and what

the modern gold rush is like. our film crew in the north of karymsky district. here in the remote taiga industrial mining of precious metal is carried out, from a bird's eye view you can see workings , excavations for many kilometers, the landscape is cosmic, here people literally walk on gold, this is the lunar landscape around us and only one artel is working, what are you talking about? now you’ll do it, we’ll take a sample, it turns out, yes, let’s

try. that is, there may be gold here, yes, yes, well, we must be lucky, i hope the mining master is gaining in... so we look and we see that this black the sand glows such a golden-yellow color, no, here, here is gold, yellow, here yellow is gold, uh-huh, well, there are probably

tenths of a gram here, yes, yes, yes, here is a piece, yes of this gold, here in this old-fashioned way, you can wash kilograms of gold, and then hand it over to the state, well, it’s unlikely that kilograms of course, but you can wash it, you can wash it, you can definitely wash it for bread, okay, what are you doing now? throw it away, no, it will all work, at least put it into use, turnover, on this development, according to experts, you can mine at least 5 kg of precious metal in a month, 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? it's powered by a 150 kw diesel power plant, there's 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 the stones accordingly fall here separately, the stones are you take it out, wash the sand, that’s all it’s washed, we serve the dirty stuff, we take it all away together and it’s clean. well, something like this, of course, you’ve seen quite large nuggets of gold here, here, no, there’s no such thing, but these are the size, if you can show it like this, well, in my life i’ve seen, well, like this, maybe like this, but there are some kind of desire , well, it’s not good to steal, no, why is it more expensive for yourself , they pay a salary, everything is fine, everything is fine, there are black diggers around here , well, they probably exist in many places in the trans-baikal territory, of course, well, how could we do without it, theft in artel. really not in respect, because if someone is caught red-handed, it will be impossible to get away with it, they can easily beat you up, and only then a criminal case and a trial, and quite tolerable conditions for living on

a taiga farm, a very decent official salary, from 200,000 rubles, but that’s all. still, the thirst for easy money sometimes wins. let's move all the remaining settlements to the capital of transbaikalia, chita. here, a criminal investigation into the smuggling of gold bars is in full swing. this criminal case has been initiated based on operational materials, provided by border guard police officers. based on the elements of the crimes provided for in part one, part two of article 210 of the criminal code of the russian federation, it is the criminal

community in part three of article 226 point 1 of the criminal code of the russian federation, namely smuggling, the illegal movement of precious metals from the territory of the russian federation abroad. 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, couriers who transported precious metal, and buyers.

they also came under criminal prosecution, left him abroad

, secret surveillance was established by zamail ragimkhanov and sergei akhmetov, when it became clear that they were really related to the illegal gold business, they decided to detain them, but this turned out to be not so easy, for example , there was a real chase for sergei akhmetov after he took the gold on august 11, 2022. dates courier in the vicinity of the border village of zabaikalsky. we showed these shots at the beginning of our program. feeling surveillance, sergei akhmetov pressed the gas and tried to escape pursuit. border patrol agents. they chased his car for several kilometers, stopped

akhmetov near the city of borze, and found 8 kg of gold bars in the car, 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 by phone only with by their foreign curators. here's one snippet. old house in which he kept illegally

purchased gold, an authoritative businessman was arrested and sent to pre-trial detention. a search was carried out in ragimkhanov’s house, the gold was not found, the businessman managed to transfer it to his foreign partners. and here is the place where he hid the jewel. discovered that the cache was in this burnt-out stove. it was clear to the border control officers that without the active help of foreigners, neither ragimkhanov nor akhmetov simply could work. first and an important obstacle is the language barrier. during interrogations, operatives found out who helped domestic businessmen. these citizens of the neighboring

state, wang lei and wang cesian, who recently settled in chita, first came to wang lei, whom the neighbors called pasha. police. introduce yourself, dear , introduce yourself, introduce yourself, last name first name, first name, pasha , what are you a citizen of, and what citizen of what, won lei, wan lei, everything is fine, forbidden, there is something in the house, there is nothing, well, now we’ll figure it out. do you understand russian?

conversational? yes, a little bit , you understand a little bit, you can’t read, no, sit down, let me sit down, you have something in your house, a prisoner, a weapon, no, drugs, no, there’s nothing, we have a criminal case filed for illegal trafficking of fighting metal, gold. we need to look at your house, everything connected, we take everything, okay, okay, this is your seid, yours, no, it’s just work, that’s all. there is yours , tagmen i have tagumen, in the safe of van lei, also known as pasha, in a soap box there were two bags of bullion gold, the man was taken to the trans-baikal

linear transport department of the russian ministry of internal affairs and interrogated, it became clear that the chinese served as a coordinator. connected illegal buyers of brawl metal in transbaikalia with his high-ranking curators. meanwhile , the operatives were on wang qiuzian's tail. the man was detained at the moment when he took the goods and headed towards zabaikalsk by car. in this box , four rectangular objects were found, respectively. now i propose, accordingly, an employee will arrive now, will bring it hanging, well, accordingly, it’s all here.

the foreigners were sent for interrogation; the investigators were interested in where the coordinators get the money to pay their 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 a chit, they found an ordinary plastic handbag full of packs of bills, different denominations, explain origin of money liu wuxiufang. she couldn’t, and she was also arrested.

soon, employees of the border department of the fsb of russia found out the names of the gold buyers, they staged a real... hunt, among them was igor chernyak, his toyota was stopped on the road near the city of borze, they offered to give out the precious metal, chernyak refused, then they decided to inspect the car for the seat put, well , put on the carpet, under the driver's seat , several home-made gold bars, what are they? wait, step away from the car, what is this? forbidden, or what? let's found it now, found it, where did you find it?

please stand out, what is forbidden there, what can you get imprisoned for? is it possible to rent out suppliers? chernyak refused to be cut off, so he himself came under investigation. the next courier, roman lopatin, turned out to be extremely inventive, and did not even blink an eye when the border guards asked to open the trunk. you personally bought, yes, this is your jack, it was the security forces who had operational information that

this jack was not a simple one, but... it also aroused suspicion, a decision was made to open it, well, inside the rod, metal filled with oil, gold bars were discovered. 16 ingots of yellow metal were hidden in damkrati ; they were sent for examination. this metal , after applying the reagent, shows that no reaction occurred, this indicates that this metal contains gold, that is, it is gold of approximately 800-850 purity. did not leave, 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 transbaikal. it was alexander shlensky. the mine was officially handed over. part of the gold for refining in 2022, the mining license expired during this year 2022 the gold was actually mined illegally and you know how much gold he gave, again, approximately, well , each batch, each of his batches sent to vasiliev was about 10-12 kg and such batches, well, we know about five slaska. was detained at the traffic police post when he, together with a counterfeiter, was driving his

the kruzak drove up to chita, hands on the car, hands on the car. following were several more arrests, this was bollot rabdanov, another financier of the group, he was taken early in the morning, completely sleepy, bolod vasilyevich, where?

who else is in the house? who's in the house? rabdanov swamps, hands, hands behind your back, here he is. surname, very, date of birth. well, that’s great, why were they detained, do you know? well, now we’ll tell you. this was presented with a warrant to conduct a search. a criminal case has been opened. several tens of millions of rubles were found in bolot rabdanovo’s house. the man was charged accusation and he was placed under arrest. and finally, another victory for the border guards. at the time of the transfer of gold, they took

the prospector sergei bogovin and the redeemer temerlan pliev. the latter lived in a distant taiga village, vershina darosunsky, several hundred kilometers from the couple, that’s how it was. what's here? there's iron there, anyone? what kind of iron? maybe? which was covered up last time, exactly the same, open what is there, please show me, timer lanpliev reluctantly opens the packages with iron, there are sparkling gold bars, metal, golden-colored metal, the origin of this metal, can you explain where you got it, how did you get it, how did it end up here, did you get it yourself, where did you get it,

did you find it? bogovin is disingenuous, there is no talk of any change, he brought gold to the buyer, his old acquaintance. as a result of measures taken for bogovin’s arrival in the trans-baikal territory, sikutii was detained in a vehicle by border control officers with the force support of the russian ministry of internal affairs, amon. with the goddess there was a bag of gold about 22. which was packed in a collection bag with seals with

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for expenses. the last person to fall into the hands of operatives was stanislav khandaev, a train driver. according to investigators, he was transporting precious metal abroad, in one of the carriages of its train. is there anyone in the house? andaev stanislav, take it all in stride, you can list the members of the criminal community of the most varied hierarchy, it seems endless , it’s already clear that they were all united by one criminal passion for illegal profit from russian wealth. during the preliminary investigation, it was established that more than