there would have been no chance at all, they would have taken him, he says, what's his name, and at most they would have given him a word, he says, you see, he began to tell, the lawyers began to talk, in the end, mailla ragimkhanov was found in zabaikalsk, here he bought an inconspicuous old house in which he kept illegally purchased gold, the authoritative businessman was arrested and sent to a pre-trial detention center. a search was conducted in ragimkhanov's house, the gold was not found, the businessman managed to pass it on to his foreign partners, here is the place where he hid the jewelry, they found it, the hiding place was here in this burnt-out stove.

it was clear to the border control officers that without the active help of foreigners, neither ragimkhanov nor akhmetov could work. the first and most important obstacle was the language barrier. during interrogations, the operatives found out who was helping the domestic businessmen. these were citizens of a neighboring state, vanlei, ivan, tsezian, who had recently settled in the couple. came to van lei, whom the neighbors called pasha, open up, police, introduce yourself, respected sir, introduce yourself. sit down,

let me sit down, do you have anything illegal in your house, weapons, no, drugs, no, nothing, we have a criminal case opened, for the illegal circulation of metal, gold, we need to look at your house, everything connected, we'll take everything, okay, okay, this is your si, yours, no,

several financiers were working, their task was to collect money from criminal partners trading in the transbaikal market, a kind of quitrent, one of these black accountants turned out to be liu xiufan, the woman was detained in chita, they found an ordinary one on her plastic bag stuffed with bundles of bills of different denominations, could not explain the origin of the money. also arrested.

soon, employees of the border department of the fsb of russia found out the names of the gold buyers, they organized a real hunt for them, among them was igor chernyak, his toyota was stopped on the road near the city of borzya, they offered to hand over drakmetall, chernyak refused, then they decided to. put the car on the seats, well, put it on the rug, under the driver's seat several homemade traces gold, what is this, wait,

come up from the car, what is this, is it prohibited or something, let's be honest. i found it, i found it, where did you find it? where, i call it, well, is it prohibited or something? can you go to jail for this? it is possible, to hand over suppliers, chernyak flatly refused, so he himself ended up under investigation. the next courier, roman lopatin, turned out to be unusually resourceful, and didn't even blink an eye when the border guards asked... to open the trunk, who owns the jack, bought it a week ago, you bought it personally, yes, this your jack, this green one, the security forces had operational information that this jack was not a simple one, but a gold one, and almost

literally, drive here, oh, pour it out, everything. bag in bag, a fifty-ton cargo jack was found in a passenger car, well, not typical for such a vehicle, what caused suspicion? well, yes, this, among other things, caused suspicion, a decision was made to open it, well, inside the rod - a metal one filled with oil was found gold bars. 16 bars of yellow metal were hidden in the jack, 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 assay value, not higher. fsb officers no longer doubted that the heirs of the criminal community continued to work. the operatives managed to establish the name of the owner of one of the mines in teva, on which openly stole precious metal and then brought it to zabaikalsk. it was alexander shlensky. ours - in 2022 the mining license expired during this year 2022 gold was actually mined illegally, and how much gold did he give away, 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. shlensky was detained at the post. ebdd, when he and the forger drove up in his land cruiser to chita. there were several more arrests, this is bollot rabdanov, another financier of the group, he was taken early in the morning, completely

sleepy. bolot vasilyevich, where is bolot? in the field , who else is in the house , on the floor, in the house, here , who is in the field, rabdanov, swamps , and hands, hands behind their backs. several tens of millions of rubles were found in bolot rabdanovo's house.

the man was charged and placed under arrest. and, finally, another victory for the border guards. at the moment of the transfer of gold, they red-handedly captured prospector sergei bogovin buyer temerlan pleev. in a distant taiga village , the darosunsky peak , several hundred kilometers from the couple, that's how it was, who is here, what is here, is there iron, who? what iron, iron, probably, the one that was convened last time, exactly the same, open up, what is there, please show it, timer lanpliyev reluctantly opens the packages with iron, there are sparkling gold melted.

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the last to fall into the hands of operatives was stanislav khandayev, a machinist trains. according to the investigation, he was transporting precious metals abroad in one of the cars of his train. is anyone home? it seems like it would be endless to list the members of a criminal community of various hierarchies , they were all united by one criminal passion

for illegal profiteering on russian wealth. during the preliminary investigation, it was established that more than thirty people were involved in this... performance, which included citizens of the russian federation and citizens of foreign countries. illegal mining of the precious metal was carried out both in the transbaikal and krasnoyarsk territories, the republic of khakassia, the irkutsk region, the republic of buryatia, and the jewish autonomous region. the participants of the golden ops are different people, with different social status and income. some admitted to committing the main crime, others did not, and some even believed that they had not broken the law. we met with some of the defendants in the criminal case. sergei bogovin, a gold mine master from yakutia, they didn't arrest him for the duration of the investigation, he confessed to the crime and is awaiting sentencing. in a conversation with us

, he complained about the difficulties of working at the mine. it's necessary , like - for the men who work. there's fuel that you bring in, there's food for the people and well, the depreciation of the equipment itself, a lot of spare parts are spent on all these things, you need to pay money somehow, well , it's not from your pocket, it's not bottomless, so people start looking for some kind of loopholes to hand over this metal, that's how and pliev appeared, timur, that's it, who is he, who is pliev, well pliev is an ordinary person who was engaged in buying gold, for me this is what he is, i brought him gold, gave him gold, he did not give the money, that's all. sergey, well, approximately, how much gold did you bring him, because we know that according to the case materials there are more than twenty kilograms, 22 kg, that's right, well yes, that's right, then they confiscated this

batch of gold from me. how can i, do i understand correctly, that according to the case materials you admitted your guilt let's cooperate with the investigation, well, in order to get there either a minimum term or a suspended sentence in order to get a minimum term, and because? i realized, really, and how many years have you been doing this? i have been doing it for three years, and why? well, you lived in this verkhnodarsky,

as they call it, verkhno dorosonsky, there is no other work, you had to eat somewhere, that's how it turned out, they specially, not purposefully, if you believe pliev, it turns out that the illegal... gold business brought him mere pennies, earlier in soviet times you would be called a speculator, a speculator, yes, now a businessman, now a businessman, yes, a golden businessman, well, why golden, well, did you know that an individual with us, you as a simple citizen, do not have the right to engage in the purchase and sale of gold, became of course, well, i'm telling you, i realized, earned a lot on this, yes, now in 10 years, probably, i will earn, in money, in money? pennies, i understand correctly, 30,000 per kilogram, 3 kg, so count, that will be, it will be 90,000, even if temerlan pleev

is telling the truth, it turns out that from just one visit to sergei bogovin, he earned more than 600,000 rubles. let us recall that bogovin brought 22 kg of gold bars, such kopecks, and another member of the criminal community , courier igor chernyak. an elderly man. he is clearly ashamed to sit in front of the lens of our video camera. how did you get caught with gold? yes, how did you get caught with gold. and i have nothing to pay the loans with. i took out loans. that's why i worked at any job, work hard. how much have you worked like this? about a month.

linear department of the ministry of internal affairs of russia for transport, material evidence in a criminal case is stored here, tens of

kilograms of gold bars and tens of millions of rubles. during the search , more than 90 million rubles were seized. let's get them out, let's show this gold blood money, here it is, yeah. amazingly , 90 million rubles. and the gold? gold is more than 50 kg of gold, well, here's a bag, wow, the bag is heavy, there's probably more than 20 kg here, yes, yes, there's more than 20 kg in this bag, let's try to get, oh, these are the tiles, gold - these are obviously homemade and home-made traces, they were obviously made at some mine. here's one even with a hologram of the author, someone got down to business, here we see who these bars belong to,

they're heavy, each one is about one and a half kilograms, let's go into the next room, here's that same gold jack, it's not a light thing, when there was gold there it was even heavier, show me what's in there... three, well, an external ordinary jack for a truck, yes, yes, externally ordinary, but one of the members of the criminal group, roman lopatin, used this device, here he hid the gold, so it closes, closes, all this in oil, plus the packaging, all this was found in his car during the arrest on the road

we move to the expert department of the fsb directorate of russia for the zabaikalsky krai. these traces were confiscated at the border, they tried to bring them out.

we go to the south of the region, to the village of zabaikalsk, to see how law enforcement officers identify smugglers, from here to the neighboring manchuria is a stone's throw, good weather, it can be seen with the naked eye, the international checkpoint zabaikalsk, the largest in the country, for example.

the checkpoint operates around the clock, like clockwork. cargo moves in both directions on multi-ton trucks. gold is seized by both customs officers and border guards with enviable consistency. after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, the flow of tourists resumed. now customs officers are checking a group of foreigners. everything is fine with you here, there is no contraband, you are not a smuggler, of course. no, what are you saying, these are just friends, a gift, for russians, friends, that's it, well, tell me how you like russia, do you like russia, oh, i love it too, tourists also try to carry gold from time to time, most often in bags with personal belongings or even on...