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khazanah batu solar yang bernilai $ 30 Juta, berat hampir 5 tan, telah ditemui
oleh polis di belakang gudang di pelabuhan Baltik Kaliningrad Rusia. “Penyimpanan
yang terkandung 227 beg dengan ambar seberat lebih 5.1 tan,” kata Kementerian
Dalam Negeri Rusia dalam satu kenyataan. “Antara batu-batu adalah ia lebih 1.5
kilogram dalam beratnya. "
Menurut
pakar, beberapa barangan yang ditemui adalah sangat jarang-jarang berlaku dan
mungkin kos hampirnya $ 100,000 setiap satunya. Polis mendapati “Bilik Amber”
di bilik bawah tanah sebuah rumah di kampung Yantarnoye, rantau Kaliningrad.
Polis meng-gunakan paksi untuk memecahkan dinding di belakang yang tempat yang
tersembunyi dengan batu-batu permata itu terletak.
Operasi
ambar telah diadakan oleh pihak polis kerana mereka sedang menyiasat kes
penipuan berpusat pada ambar baron Viktor Bogdan Kaliningrad, yang kini dalam
senarai dikehendaki di antarabangsa. Polis percaya bahawa Bogdan mungkin
berkaitan dengan ambar harta baru-baru ini.
Five-ton
‘Amber Room’ worth $30mn found in Russia
A
$30 million treasure cave of solar stone, weighing nearly 5 tons, was unearthed
by police behind a cellar in the Russian Baltic port of Kaliningrad. “The
storage contained 227 bags with amber weighing over 5.1 tons,” Russia’s
Interior Ministry said in a statement. “Among the stones were those over 1.5
kilograms in weight.”
According
to specialists, some of the items found are very rare and may cost nearly
$100,000. Police found the “Amber Room” in the cellar of a house in Yantarnoye
village, Kaliningrad region. Police used axes to break the wall behind which a
hidden place with semi-precious stones was located.
The
amber operation was staged by police as they were investigating a fraud case
centering on Kaliningrad amber baron Viktor Bogdan, who is currently on the
international wanted list. The police believe that Bogdan might be related to
the recent amber trove.
Seorang
pegawai polis menggunakan kapak untuk memecahkan dinding di belakang yang cache
dengan ambar terletak. Screenshot daripada video polis tempatan, 23 Disember,
2013, di Kaliningrad, Rusia (A police officer uses an ax to break the wall
behind which a cache with amber is located. Screenshot from local police video,
December 23, 2013, in Kaliningrad, Russia (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity
Kaliningrad,
terpencil Russia exclave Baltik antara Poland dan Lithuania, terkenal kerana
menjadi rumah kepada deposit bawah tanah yang paling kaya di DUNIA ambar Baltic,
subset tertentu ambar yang hanya terdapat di utara Eropah. Rantau Kaliningrad
meme-gang lebih 90 % peratus (lebih 250,000 tan) bekalan di DUNIA ambar dan
hanya rantau Rusia di mana ambar dihasilkan daripada simpanan.
Walau
bagaimanapun, di kawasan-kawasan yang kaya dengan perlombongan haram ambar turut
membabitkan. Pakar2 menganggarkan bahawa, bersama perahan undang-undang 340
tan, antara 60 dan 100 tan ambar dilombong secara haram setiap tahun di rantau
Kaliningrad, menurut RIA Novosti.
Mafia
ambar tempatan mengawal banyak deposit (simpanan) batu2. Beratus-ratus kilogram
ambar berkualiti tinggi dieksport di pasaran gelap. Dalam beberapa tahun
kebe-lakangan ini di rantau Kaliningrad, ramai baron ambar telah menyerbu
sebagai sebahagian daripada penyiasatan jenayah yang berterusan ke dalam skim
eksport haram.
Kaliningrad,
an isolated Russian Baltic exclave between Poland and Lithuania, is well known
for being home to the world's richest underground deposits of Baltic amber, a
specific subset of amber that is found only in northern Europe. The Kaliningrad
region holds over 90 percent (over 250,000 tons) of the world's supplies of
amber and is the only Russian region where amber is produced from deposits.
However,
in the amber-rich areas illegal mining is rife. Experts estimate that,
alongside the legal extraction of 340 tons, between 60 and 100 tons of amber is
mined illegally every year in the Kaliningrad region, according to RIA Novosti.
The
local amber mafia controls many of the stone deposits. Hundreds of kilograms of
high-quality amber are being exported on the black market. In the last few
years in the Kaliningrad region, many amber barons have been raided as part of
a continuous criminal investigation into illegal export schemes.
Banyak
barang-barang yang sangat jarang-jarang berlaku dan boleh bernilai sehingga $
100,000 setiap satunya. Screenshot daripada video polis tempatan, 23 Disember,
2013, Kaliningrad, Rusia. (Many of the items are very rare and could be worth
up to $100,000 each. Screenshot from local police video, December 23, 2013,
Kaliningrad, Russia. (think IN pictures
@1WORLDCommunity)
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