Export of mammoth tusks to China was stopped in Amur region – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

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Customs officers in Blagoveshchensk did not allow the mammoth tusks to be taken to China. Fossil values ​​were found at the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe checkpoint in one of the containers on the ship, according to the Far Eastern Customs Administration.

The examination confirmed that the product is a cultural property of particular importance: two mammoth tusks weighing 108.5 kilograms. Their market price exceeds 250 thousand rubles.

As Valery Tikhonov, the head of the Khabarovsk customs service for the Amur Region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), explained, it is possible to export cultural values ​​of special historical, artistic, scientific or cultural significance from the territory of the EAEU only if there are permits with the obligation to re-import them within a specified period …

The goods are now in a temporary storage warehouse. An administrative case has been opened and the issue of initiating a criminal one is being resolved.

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