In the Amur region, a Chinese was detained, trying to leave for his homeland in Golden Boops worth 8.6 million rubles

In the Blagoveshchensk of the Amur Region, customs officers stopped trying to smuggle precious metal. A China citizen tried to leave the country, hiding more than three kilograms of gold in his shoes, the cost of which exceeds eight million rubles.

"On October 7, in the personal inspection of the Annunciation customs post of the Annunciation customs of the Blagoveshchensk customs from a Chinese citizen born in 1981, who left Russia to China, four undeclared yellow metal ingots were discovered," the report posted on the official website of the Eastern Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.

According to experts, the captures detected contained gold weighing at least 3 kilograms of 680 grams with a total cost of more than 8 million 666 thousand 800 rubles.

On October 16, a criminal case was instituted on Part 1 of Art. 226.1 of the Criminal Code ("smuggling"). A foreigner is facing a punishment in the form of seven years in prison.

"The decision to institute criminal proceedings by the Annunciation Transport Prosecutor was recognized as legal and justified. Supervision was established for its investigation," the department added.

This is not the first attempt to take out precious metal in the secret departments of the boots through the Annunciation Pass point. So, at the end of August of this year, 2 kilograms of gold worth 4 million 886 thousand rubles were discovered at the homeland of the PRC who went to their homeland under the insoles, Interfax reports.