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Employees of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Trans-Baikal Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Transport together with colleagues from the FSB of Russia stopped the activities of an organized group whose members are suspected of illegally trading in gold and attempting to smuggle it.According to preliminary data the group consisted of several structural divisions divided according to functional and territorial features. The role of some was to acquire gold in the Amur Region the Republic of Sakha Yakutia and other regions of the Far Eastern Federal District store it refine it and melt it into gold bars. Other participants using conspiracy methods transported gold to the Trans-Baikal Territory. Their accomplices were responsible for the further illegal movement of the precious metal abroad.Criminal cases have been initiated on the grounds of crimes provided for by Part 5 of Article 191 Part 3 of Article 30 Part 3 of Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Currently they are combined into one production.As a result of operational-search activities more than 50 kg of gold worth more than 178 million rubles were found and seized from the members of the group said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk .The events were carried out under the coordination of a subdivision of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutors Office with a deployment in the city of Chita.Policemen and employees of the FSB of Russia with the forceful support of the Russian Guard detained ten alleged members of the group. Eight of them were taken into custody and a measure of restraint in the form of a written undertaking not to leave and proper behavior was chosen for two.
