Border Guards Detained Gold Ore

On July 27, 2020, while inspecting a truck at the “Kairak” automobile checkpoint en route from Nur-Sultan to the Chelyabinsk region of the Russian Federation the officers of the Department of the Border Service of the NSC of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Kostanay region revealed the gold ore transported in 12 bulk bags, with a total weight of about 10 tons. According to the documents, the cargo was registered as "quartzite"

According to experts, during the processing the pure gold from 1 ton can be obtained up to 1 kg of gold ore. According to the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the cost of 1 gram of gold is 25 213 tenge. In accordance with the preliminary estimates, the amount of seized product can be valued at about 250 million tenge.

The detained cargo for procedural assessment was transferred to the Department of State Revenues for Kostanay region.

 

Press Service

Of the National Security Committee

Of the Republic of Kazakhstan