Smuggling of mammoth tusks worth 1 billion tenge has been stopped

Court verdict No.2 Saryarkinsky district, Nur-Sultan citizen A., was found guilty of attempting to smuggle mammoth tusks and prehistoric rhinoceros to China.

According to experts, their weight is more than 5 tons, and the cost exceeds 1 billion tenge.

The remains of ancient giants were brought to our country from the Russian Federation, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

In order to obtain a license for the export of items, the authorized body of Kazakhstan has been provided with the conclusions of a Russian specialist deprived of accreditation, with false conclusions about the absence of cultural value.

With the coordination of the Main Transport Prosecutor's Office, together with Russian colleagues, the investigation collected the necessary evidence of the convict's guilt.

During the trial, at the initiative of the state prosecutor, the court issued a private resolution to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the elimination of the causes and conditions conducive to the commission of crimes.

It is required to revise the procedure for issuing a license for the export of paleontology items, with an increase in the terms of public services and the inclusion of representatives of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the commission.

Since it seems very difficult to give an objective assessment of values only on the basis of the documents provided within the daily period stipulated by the law.

The court sentenced the defendant to 4 years and six months in prison, and also transferred the bulk of the tusks to the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the remaining ones to entrepreneurs of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation who are their rightful owners.

The judicial act has not entered into legal force.

Main Transport Prosecutor's Office