Poroshenko said about the detention in Ukraine of the first batch of smuggled amber
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday said the arrest of 82 kilograms of smuggled amber.
"Today, caught the first 82 kg smuggling of amber. All the gang brought to justice. We will not stop, this is only the beginning!" ? wrote Poroshenko in his own microblog on Twitter.
The scheme was forthcoming: raw amber that is extracted in Lithuania and transit through the territory of Poland were imported to Ukraine in dual package of shipping documents. The purpose of the transit was a necessity, like his treatment to any of Ukrainian plants with the subsequent obligation of re-exportation in Lithuania, notified on the Internet office of the state border service of Ukraine. In fact, Lithuanian stones in Ukraine were substituted for the brand name amber is of great quality, which is illegally mined in the border district, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn regions. In the future the Ukrainian amber was exported to Lithuania. In the form of guarantee on the account of the intermediary Bank in new York did you pay for the received for processing products. The investigators found that the payments 240-340 USD per 1 kg of unsorted amber were the calculation for the extraction of raw materials. It was also determined that the scammers acquired illegally mined amber in the Rivne region. For stones smugglers were calculated money means. Price of one ton of amber exceeded 100 thousand Dollars. After sorting and packing of valuable stones were legalservices by providing to the customs documents on the re-importation of the processed raw materials to the customers in Hong Kong. Shadow sale was conducted via the Internet and the funds for the products were transferred to the accounts of the organizers of the scheme.
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