The cost of the arrested solar stone is 16 million hryvnia. As the speaker of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko reported on his page in the social network, the court also arrested special equipment for illegal mining and processing of amber. Investigative actions were carried out in the framework of the criminal case initiated by the police under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Illegal mining of national importance, Riot, resistance and violence against a law enforcement officer.

Now the necessary investigative actions are carried out in the case with the purpose of establishing all the circumstances of the commission of criminal offenses connected with illegal operations with amber and bringing the guilty persons to the responsibility provided for by the law, "Lysenko said..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the Odessa airport border guards detained a Chinese citizen who tried to illegally take out to Turkey amber.

According to the border guards, during the registration of the passengers of the flight Odessa-Istanbul by the inspection group, three suspicious packages were found in the personal belongings of a Chinese citizen.