“The FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the prosecutor’s office, prevented the activities of a criminal group among Russian citizens involved in evading mandatory refining (the metallurgical process of obtaining high-purity precious metals by separating pollutants from them) obtained from secondary raw materials of precious metals in Dagestan in Dagestan size, ”TASS quoted the representative of the agency as saying.
The FSB specified that the attackers purchased scrap of precious products: more than a ton of gold and 15 tons of silver, from which jewelry was made. Ornaments “were handed over to the Caspian State Inspection for Assay Supervision (ППИПН) with evasion of the mandatory transfer of collected metal to the state for refining”.
In September, more than 26 kg of gold worth 100 million rubles was seized from illegal sellers in Moscow.