AFM employees seized gold worth 35 million tenge from black miners

06/12/2023

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A group of people in the Akmola region, Astana and Shymkent were involved in illegal trafficking of precious metals on an especially large scale. Their activities were exposed by employees of the AFM department for the Akmola region under the coordination of the regional prosecutor's office. The entire scheme for the illegal mining, purchase and sale of gold, the manufacture of unaccounted jewelry from it and their sale has been established, inbusiness.kz reports with reference to the press service of the department . “From 2019 to the present, five suspects were engaged in buying gold, illegally mined and processed by black miners in the village of Bestobe. Subsequently, gold bars were supplied through well-established channels, where unregistered jewelry of well-known brands was produced in clandestine workshops with stamps applied and sold in trading houses in Astana and Shymkent. During the searches, more than 1 kilogram of gold bars with a gold content of 99.5%

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