runners and cuckolds outside the law, the primorye border guards, customs officers, put up a barrier to a smuggler who is trying to withdraw from russia exotic goods, parts of wild animals and plants from the red book. hello studio eduard petrov how much does a tiger cost, one of the few animals that can not be legally bought anywhere in the world? imagine the name of lyudmila vladimirovna, the total cost of smuggling, which will have over 20 million rubles for alternative medicine. it is much wider than just the use of parts of slaughtered animals. everybody they say that she traded in the paws of tigers to bears, he organized a whole criminal group, i do

n’t suspect anything. when you brought something banned , no, no, taking risks on the black market can reach several million rubles. yes, where we have 160.000 there. yes, yes, money decides a lot for them, but they must remember that customs and border guards and internal affairs bodies always do. the king of beasts and the master of the taiga, the amur tiger and the brown bear, in danger, mercilessly exterminates them for the sake of oriental medicine from ground bones, tigers and paws bears, the so-called derivatives in the countries of east and southeast asia, are made medicinal potions, and from the red book root. ginseng officinalis elixirs. the benefits of such miracle pills are very doubtful. our doctors are sure

of such tinctures and pseudo-drugs. it is unlikely that this is just a tribute to oriental traditions. however, the illegal hunting of bears and tigers continues, and their skins are still a currency commodity. how does the illegal market for far eastern derivatives work? what tricks are smugglers, trying to smuggle prohibited goods abroad, and how the security forces were able to defeat the international criminal association, operating in primorye, we took up this case and conducted our own investigation.

sergey aramilev, general director of the amur tiger center, this organization was created by the russian geographical society on the initiative of russian president vladimir putin, people work

endlessly in the center, in love with nature and big ussuri cats director sergey aramilev knows everything or almost everything about tigers. unfortunately sometimes it turns out, here are the circumstances. this is the laboratory of the center today they brought here two tigers killed in the taiga by poachers. hidden. an investigation is currently underway. if we see that the incoming bullet hole is located behind the back of the tiger's body, then he understands that the tiger did not attack the person, on the contrary, he ran away from him.

lake khanka is the largest freshwater reservoir in the far east. this is a real pearl of the primorsky territory, the lake is shallow and in summer the water warms up to a comfortable 30 degrees, and in winter there is no end to ice fishing enthusiasts and tourists. what is it? people drive caravanovich across the lake, but do not forget that

khanka is a border lake. this is a water division between states, the water border is about 70 km, and in order to understand where it passes in summer, it puts up buoys, and in winter, border guards put flags right on the ice and control the situation on snowmobiles. the main opponents of the border guards on lake khanka are poachers and smugglers, who for many decades, with enviable persistence is trying to secretly smuggle rare animal derivatives abroad - this is the source material for the preparation of elixirs and potions of alternative medicine of the peoples of the east.

over the past time, the border control has detected more than 55 cases of attempts to smuggle strategically important goods and raw materials, including 17 of them attempts to move especially valuable wild animals and aquatic biological resources. the largest ever operation to detain illegal immigrants took place in the winter of 2018. the main thing in the criminal group turned out to be a woman resident of ussuriysk, ethnic korean lyudmila

kim, we received the specified information in advance, and recorded them, and all their actions. and when the car was already loaded, just in the area where the departure was planned, they were detained. here are the footage of that very night, the border guards and customs officers, in addition to darkness, stopped two minibuses and an suv with a trailer. lyudmila vladimirovna, the border guards demand to show what is in the minibus. the frightened driver of the minibus is not immediately able to perform the order of the security forces shows that he is cold and scared.

in the meantime, what is the name of the customs officer inspecting the car in the cabin are large heavy bags of light gray color, they are very strong, they are usually used for construction debris. they found the driver's passport in the cab, it turns out his name is galyan. immediately in another car, two more of his compatriots and all the detainees, along with their vehicles, were taken to vladivostok. in the meantime, the border guards dealt with lyudmila kim and citizens of the neighboring state the customs administration carefully examined the contents of the buses.

there are 48 bags of tiger and himalayan bear derivatives for a tiger skin. yes, there were paws, mostly. these were the paws of a himalayan bear, only 16 pieces, the idea of ​​​​smuggling was to bring it all to the khanku lake on ice, leave the winter period of time by car there in order not to be installed. to describe everything, this stuff took the experts several days and here they are official conclusion. the bulk of the

detained derivatives, at least five individuals amur tiger one dressed skin 18 claws bone skeletons. belogrudov and brown bears 879 paws 306 claws three gallbladders of a tree of the far eastern frog 33.8 kg and 18 kg of dried fat of red deer and sika deer. 127 tails and 60 genitals

this unusual contraband product was very much expected in the adjacent territory. let's return to the inspection of the car , the violators found an unregistered saiga carbine and several dozen fairly large amber stones. the first investigative actions were carried out with lyudmila kim precisely. according to investigators, she organized the purchase and further transportation of illegal goods across the border.

and to you here, let's say, she was more talkative. i began to say who, what roles they played there , i realized that it was no longer possible to deny, of course, in addition, in order to organize the entire criminal kidney and tie together hunters, buyers and smugglers. lyudmila kim provided accommodation for some foreigners specialists in tiger skins and bear paws were detained in kim's house in ussuriisk

investigation into the body of the criminal group of lyudmila kim lasted several months, the attackers were accused of attempted smuggling of parts of especially valuable wild animals of firearms and ammunition by an organized group. the total cost of this contraband, which will have more than 20 million rubles. is there anything to risk? yes , of course, but the money that they would receive abroad is many times more, because on the black market it is valued much more expensively.

general regime colony for 4 years and 10 months. but in relation to lyudmila kim, themis turned out to be more lenient; the woman was sent to jail for 3.5 years, in addition, kim was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million 300,000 rubles. let's say there was a criminal gathering when if people with a certain bright criminal world from the far east came to the european part of russia, then, accordingly, uh, the rules of good form were there to present a tiger school as a gift, yes, or there the bones are also western according to partners and people in east asia had fangs, from which certain amulets were made, so there was also a demand for them. lyudmila kim was released from custody

ahead of schedule on parole. we really wanted to meet her and ask her about what and how happened a few years ago. it turned out that kim still lives in the same house on the outskirts, ussuri next to the gate, a silver toyota prius cannot enter the yard, a dog tied to the fence rushes at us and barks deafeningly from a change house, located next to the house, a man comes out in oriental in appearance and says that he will invite the hostess soon, a small elderly woman appears on the street, as it turns out this mother of lyudmila, she seems to be the hope of danilovna kim, we are making documentaries. we wanted to talk to lyuda, we know that she was accused of such a serious in an unusual crime and she

even sat in a colony, for no reason. yes. you can tell about it there. why not for anything. everyone says that she traded in the paws of tigers and bears. that's what he organized, a whole criminal group. no, she wasn't all wrong. no. i really was that day just i was at home, i always left with my eldest daughter, and that day i was here. and this one i come, she leaves. i say where are you? i'm mom, i 'll be right back. and that’s it, she didn’t want to go, but they didn’t persuade her. here she is that day her girlfriend had a birthday she had to go birthday to go, she dressed up and went out she was caught. only you will be driving , i heard this never sat, then she traded fish, then she was engaged

in real estate transactions, but about the paws of tigers and bears. so it's all slander. i believe that this is generally for no reason planted. i don't know, i say. yes. i am alone. now, according to nadezhda danil, she was tormented by her daughter without work, who was convicted, they don’t take anywhere, to somehow get by . they're renting a room, to be exact. this room is a long shed with windows and air conditioning, while we were talking with the elder kim from there, every now and then men looked out unexpectedly next to us, braked bright a small black woman came out of the passenger compartment of a nissan serena craft bus. sunglasses and a confident step towards us , it was impossible to make a mistake. it was up to lyudmila kim herself that the woman immediately went on the attack. hello

hello if it's possible it's not possible to have permission to somehow talk to the stern brunette. we had to be direct and intelligible. explain to her. why did we come here and what purpose are we pursuing only then the woman agreed to voice her position in the criminal case. i understand correctly that, uh, everything they tell us about, border guards. you don't agree with this. well, i partially disagree, that is, there were skins, there were paws, but they were not mine. i mean, you didn't have anything to do with it, no, because your mother told you everything that you were going to someone's birthday at all. you were asked to drive. very often they

asked me to get behind the wheel earlier. well, that's why we went to this attitude. i didn't have any at all. and what was there? i don’t know either, i don’t know, why did you have socks like that and asked, it’s good you don’t have time to do it. it's great what exactly i mean, we did not understand lyudmila kim, who was convicted of smuggling, but now it is very problematic to transfer any goods abroad, and quite officially. in the first half of 2020, due to the

coronavirus pandemic, land traffic in the neighboring state almost completely stopped tourists and shuttles, among which there were periodically those who wanted to transport illegal cargo, but were deprived of the opportunity to travel abroad. so smuggling no longer exists. replies with a barely concealed smirk. this is business. uh, a business, a good business that brings in a lot of money, that's why people who are smuggling them do not stop, not a pandemic nor , uh, the deadlines that are set by the court. with the onset of the pandemic, several new unofficial names came into use among the far eastern border guards and local officers, one of them beguns is the name of a person who is trying to illegally cross the border with smuggled cargo

. runners, as a rule, are citizens of a neighboring state. for some reason they are sure that they will succeed unnoticed to overcome not only the control and trail strip, but also to deceive the engineering and technical means with which the state border was equipped in the twentieth year. we encountered e with such a new method, and when citizens from certain states tried to move, and objects e, directly across the state border of the russian federation, it was in the khasan region of iriskam. that is, just run. just take, roughly speaking, a backpack to put on and cross them only only places known to them yes. in vladivostok, we managed to find such runners, sunjunguy and fairies yushua. they tried to

illegally smuggle a large consignment of saiga horns across the border of the russian federation. this beast can be considered unique. it appeared 570,000 years ago, found the era of mammoths and survived to this day, but such a long history does not help it survive in the modern world. the species is considered endangered. in the literal sense, they fled at night towards the border, they thought to slip through, but naturally they were detained and subsequently convicted. now both men have been released and are waiting for the opportunity to return. home about how it all happened, the runners talk willingly. what is your name? imagine what exactly you

did, and for what you were detained, that you tried to transfer contraband goods of deer antler from russia . i am very sorry for the crime committed on the territory of russia and i will never do this again. mom, pavlash, mom, dad are bored and well, for their health, not everything is in order. and this is sunn's partner in the fairies' criminal business. yushua. he says that he got into this unpleasant story by accident and is extremely sorry about what happened. when you first came to russia and why i came to russia in march 2019.

wanted to travel, how come your journey ended in prison. i came and met with my friend. we discussed the issues of moving contraband from russia . he said that he would definitely help to get a job later. you regret what happened. i am very sorry that i did all this and will definitely tell my friends that i do such activities. not worth it.

and this is how the suifenhe border road crossing looks today in the ussuri region. the capacity of the checkpoint is about 55 vehicles one way. that is, respectively, the same amount is returned, as for imports, that is, almost all moments are moved. vottura, consumer goods equipment, vegetables, fruits and various

building materials for export today. mostly veneer and pine nuts go to food. once there were a string of trucks and buses with thousands of tourists. today, several dozen trucks that go abroad in the morning. there, the body is unhooked, the cargo is checked, and the tractor is sent to russia after some time, a new flight is already loaded. you, when you were transporting something, it’s not forbidden, no, it’s not worth the risk there, for example, i don’t know, there is the skin of an amur tampa tiger in three banks, if you work, well, i think, but it’s not worth smuggling in such conditions . it seems impossible, but customs and border officials know it costs a little weaken the control and the hiding places of the trucks will be filled to the limit with prohibited goods. for example, ninth

wild animals or red book wild plants? and such a case was quite recently. the border guards received operational information that the driver of one of the trucks was a resident. primorsky territory georgy meshchaninov is trying to illegally export a large batch of ginseng roots abroad. he was equipped with a hiding place. uh in the dashboard of a truck man here is the german man here if u also in the toolbox are done additional partitions, which means that during a superficial visual inspection they, of course, are not visible, but uh, experienced uh, border guard. he, of course, sees, and what is the difference between the internal volume and the external volume

? if you don't want it, in a good way, if you don't want it, i don't know, i said georgy meshchaninov's cars, 137 ginseng roots weighing 2 kg were found. the fact is that the cost of ginseng root on the black market can reach several million rubles per root. it all depends on its size and preservation, and the cost of those two kilograms of roots that were taken from the tradesmen is also very high, about 50 million rubles. in a relationship. georgy meshchaninov. an investigation is underway and it is possible that a criminal case will be initiated.

now, in order to smuggle illegal goods abroad, a smuggler needs to try very hard, today it is impossible. without control somehow to carry out the workers of the state border, prohibited, as well as restricted goods and cargoes, if border guards or customs officers will appear, even the slightest doubt about the accuracy of declaring the cargo sends the truck for additional examination, saying, it’s easier to drive it through a giant x-ray machine. here it is, the customs officers affectionately call it a typewriter , which allows our film crew to climb inside hidden cavities, sometimes at the beginning of the vehicle. maybe an additional wall was made in a false dark, behind which there is contraband. well

, nothing will escape your zone. it is necessary, of course, well, two words about derivatives, but about skins about paws of tigers la paws of bears about ginseng root. yes, such situations have happened. uh, there were deer, and horns, it turns out bear paws, they found all this, but if you enlighten the truck, you can do it pretty quickly, then things are much more complicated with the train, we go to the sosnovaya pad station free access is prohibited here, only border control officers can be here and customs officers. the train can be seen long before it reaches the station; here it slowly creeps along the hills, slowly drives up to the tail and freezes in action inspection team enters. at the moment

, the ussuriysk officials are conducting a joint inspection of the rolling stock together with the border guards. well, usually where they hide, they usually hide the spinal beams, what usually hides, or something cases rose of the sea cucumber of the far east one of the batches of sea cucumber was detained a few days before the arrival of our film crew. that's how it was? here is the train mother's equipped cache. mi the border is locked and there are enough violators about this. we are told by the chief customs officer of the entire far east that more than 12,000 cases of administrative

offenses were initiated last year. i called the number 225 criminal cases. it's all a violation. and of course uh. you know, sometimes you even look at these figures with bitterness, that no matter how we do not warn, how we do not carry out explanatory work, there are individual citizens, there are individual companies that strive to do something contrary to the law, for their own benefit. we are going to the capital of primorye vladivostok, they are waiting for us here specialists of the forensic service of the far eastern customs administration and immediately

get to the laboratory to an impromptu exhibition of derivatives and unusual red book plants seized from smugglers, here are outlandish mushrooms and dried frogs and not at all attractive worms and a huge flask with wine. the most interesting package we have here, yes, as i understand it, the economy and what is it? very sea cucumber for you , holothurian sea cucumber, sea cucumber looks, of course, looks not very looks not very, why it is so interesting, than its value , first of all, of course, its monetary equivalent and will be asked a lot in the asian market if our purchase was about 40,000 rubles. per kilogram, then there is a vacation pay of about 120,000 rubles. as for these funny, but at the same time very beautiful animals, the inhabitants of the european part of russia call maria, this is a relative of three pangas. and right? what

is the name of the galature or cucumaria, well, the sea cucumber, including one can call it the marine hyperbion of the skin family belongs to the fishery widely mined from the seabed is used for making. culinary products there are salads with kelp, or kumari in oil. a large party also tried to move these frogs across the border. it was a very big party. it was about 12 big boxes because they kinda look like frogs. here are the long ones. why is it because of the way they are made? the fact is that a living frog must be hung on a knot or a carnation with its muzzle so that it stretches out in such a string during death throes. mushrooms, i see, you have funny ones. yes, they are

presented here, that is, it is also forbidden to transport such mushrooms across the border. and here is the fruiting body of the trudovik, varnished, which in asian countries is known as the reishi health mushroom. it is widely used primarily in gerotological medicine for people, the elderly growing in a blue bag rather specific. these are deer veins. manchurian deer, maybe the deer of the achilles tendon from the leg in asian countries and, by the way, it is in part of small nationalities on on the territory of the russian federation, how many deer are killed here, if you count from each leg , then probably no less than ten pieces. and here is the main exhibit - this is a traditional alcoholic drink, which representatives of the countries of the east drink only on the biggest holidays, in appearance

sunflower oil with additives. this is the national tincture. ilya is a national asian wine for health, in which snake ginseng roots are used, just go to the red book. here, yes, yes, here are the rhizomes, ginseng, which is very popular in asian countries as a means for longevity. there is also a snake here. yes, there are three snakes. there is such a specific fruiting body of the fungus, asians. they learned to grow it in very unusual forms. all this goes in as ingredients for making wine for health. here is another illegal product that is especially popular with local smugglers along with three pangs. this is saiga horn. in primorye, they are most often brought from the kalmyks of dagestan and a soldier in the countries of eastern and in southeast asia, they are made into tinctures that

allegedly help against hundreds of different diseases of smugglers carrying such goods, local law enforcement officers dubbed cuckolds. one of these was a fifty-year-old rogue from a neighboring state. van linn, he traveled a lot in russia. he visited different regions of our country in moscow and even in grozny, a van-lidun was detained in ussuriysk, where he tried to bribe the border guards to help them smuggle the horns abroad, arriving at the border area, of course, he aroused suspicion and he himself did not have to look for anyone to check on him, an employee of the border service. himself approached him to make sure who he was? and what is he doing here? and here he was followed by an offer to return a bribe. what was the amount of 160,000 rubles.

the border guards did not immediately detain the foreigner, but waited for mr. van to arrive with goods and money. they took him the next day in the car 451 saiga rocks with 160,000 rubles. to appease the border guards after the first interrogations became clear. that ice was planning to cross the border, i would go to the lake, khanty a wanted to take his son to help. they bought sleds, bought backpacks and planned to cross the border of the pass, that is, across the border, yes. wang li dong was charged with cuckolding. he was accused of giving a bribe in smuggling and illegal circulation of especially valuable biological resources. the first sentence on a bribe has already taken place mr. wang was given

5 years in prison met with him in a pre-trial detention center in the city of artyom i was born in this china province. province leonin year direct thousands of items. lidun understands russian quite well. he willingly talks about what he was going to earn in our country. in the nineteenth year. you came here to russia and crossed the border. and what were you doing? i at least yes, uh, here, this is an area in ussuriysk tree. this is what they did with paper, then plywood is made by cuckold. wang lidong claims he wanted to do honest business, but he got into this trouble quite by accident. but the fact that he handed over money to the border guards is recognized 160,000 and then what happened. he is very

cunning, of course, he understands, what other punishment threatens him, and that's how he can, at the end of our conversation, mr. van turned to his fellow countrymen. i am very sorry and remorseful that my friends did this. there is no need to make such mistakes. no need to break the russian law.

for what purpose did you stay on the territory of hunting reserves, just walked, but let's not forget that all kinds of runners and cuckolds appear in primorye just because they continue to conduct illegal hunting here, ruthless killers of wild animals are on the alert for operational information. for now, the border crossings are closed to tourists. they do not accumulate devatas from hronas. there is information that they really expect the opening of the border, but despite this, work is being actively carried out, mainly these are operational units. and today, even in a period of calm, when there is no real trade, there are criminals, miners and caches, and there are even

attempts to resell among themselves for the purpose of smuggling abroad. and it's not loud words in february 2022. in the far rechinsky district of primorsky krai, a policeman detained three hunters who had killed a tiger in the taiga and were carrying the carcass by the buyer. igor has already been mined a crime. we have documented this year. uh, in the month of february in due time. it was received information that want just to be and documented. this fact detainees face up to 5 years in prison and a large fine. i'm madly sorry of course these e animals. uh, because they become just hostages human greed, human cruelty , human greed, there are law enforcement agencies that must clearly define and legally assess what is happening. in addition

, there should be control services, if we are really worried, not in words, but in deeds, but these specific animals, if we are worried about the endangered, then you need to take the right steps. how much does a tiger cost? a tiger is one of the few animals that cannot be legally bought anywhere in the world and not only in russia, it is believed that if a tiger time to dust on medicine, relatively speaking, over tablets, over powders, over tinctures, and then, it looks like it, of course, to work considerable money. employees of the far eastern customs until the administration

continues to catch cuckolds, blocking smuggling channels one after another, unfortunately, in our film. we do not have the right to disclose all aspects of their work, but it is safe to say that killers of wild animals who dream of stuffing their pockets with dirty money will definitely not escape responsibility. money decides a lot for them money, unfortunately, uh, so they probably didn't find themselves in this world. yes, they haven’t found another occupation for themselves that would satisfy them, or they believe that such a method of life, such a method of earning money and such a way of life is the most acceptable for them, but they must remember that border guards and internal affairs agencies are always on the alert, and besides, if you believe in our patriotic medicine, these home-made drugs are

unlikely to be able to cure at least an ordinary cold with alternative medicine. she is much wider. uh, than just the use of animal parts, let's just say not disrespect this part, i would not. there is, uh, acupuncture, some manual methods of influence, and so on, then everything is quite effective and even traditional medicine has its own application. ah. well, what we are talking about, uh, about getting some elixirs of tinctures of powders of esoteric parts of animals, in my opinion. this is incredible. what it will help, most likely, it is really a tribute to tradition. meanwhile sergei aramilev continues to do his favorite thing, which is very important for the country, he studies the amur

tigers and takes care of preserving their population. now there are about 600 of them, but 600 tigers. yes, i think that under the last count, to which they shed this winter, it will show a large figure, that the cats are breeding, these are the efforts that are being made, they show their effectiveness, and that's it. this is thanks to your center, and all this is thanks to the russian state. hmm the government of the russian federation of nature in russia is a system of reserves national parks, uh, power structures, which acted as a single fist in the fight against poaching. go go don't look back.

what do you call a tiger outing? well, it's hard to call it affectionately affectionate doors. this is an animal that inspires respect, for example, a tiger cannot physiologically turn its tail and , accordingly, its door, despite the large one, can, but it can, and an animal with its tail between its legs looks as if frightened, yes, or it looks pathetic, but the tiger cannot physiologically, therefore, we cannot understand what he has inside there, but he looks always city and dependent. the stories that we have told you are not at all about smuggling or illegal hunting, they are about human greed and greed, but about the ruthless hunting of tigers and bears for illegal extraction of trepanka or root. ginseng locals do not go out of dire need. they are chasing a long ruble for super profits,

which are sold abroad. brings wood. you're just the end of such stories is always one sentence here. this is how we saw the situation with the smuggling of derivatives. this was our investigation primorsky territory, only you drew conclusions. see you on the russia 24 tv channel.

why without a fairy tale these courageous conscripted doctors go to the front line of mariupol when the ukrainian positions arrive home by special order, it can always be that the car is on the rise, where there are no stationary medical institutions there

are cars there with a specialist from the russian federation

it pours it pours it smokes it melts. why do russians smile so little in the center of the brightest world , the blackest holes are born, but everything they do they don't count. and why are the russians smiling so little trying to drown out. it has already been we repeat russians. why are you so little? are you smiling? are we smiling? when what is planned happens, when we meet with our soul mate, we smile, and at the end of each long winter we smile just a little bit, we rise through the heavy clods of the stalk, this earth smiles, you stand on it, you feel like strength from the feet. a face rises in my head and smiles itself when, where there was only ice, cities appear, when our first goes into space, when the one who must reach reaches victory, and then returns and smiles.

in russia today is the day of the border guards on their professional holiday the personnel of veterans congratulated vladimir putin on the task you are facing, especially significant now in the context of unprecedented political economic information pressure on our country , building up nato’s military potential directly at russian guns. i will especially note the clear and courageous actions of the personnel of the border guard service of russia on crossing the river.