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To: long-gone who wrote (54889)6/22/2000 10:59:00 AM
From: pater tenebrarum  Respond to of 116760
 
well, it's not really important new era news, right? if they mentioned it it must have been done in passing only...



To: long-gone who wrote (54889)6/22/2000 11:09:00 AM
From: lorne  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116760
 
Russian Security Service Stops Attempt to Smuggle over 100 Kg of Gold and Silver

Jun 12, 2000 -- (BBC Monitoring) Moscow, 11th June: Police and security officers have conducted a special operation at the Gromov aeronautics institute in Zhukovskiy, near Moscow, to prevent the illegal transportation of large quantities of precious metals.

In the process of inspecting an Il-76 transport aircraft owned by Kosmos Airlines, the Federal Security Service confiscated 97.5 kg of gold nuggets and almost 15 kg of silver being moved by the leadership of a gold miners' team from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy to Moscow, the Federal Security Service's public relations center told Interfax on Sunday [11th June].

A criminal case has been opened and an investigation launched.
russiatoday.com