JohnnyAdam – Gua khazanah batu solar yang bernilai $ 30 Juta, berat hampir 5 tan, telah ditemui oleh polis di belakang gudang di pelabuhan Baltik Kaliningrad Rusia. “Penyim-panan 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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