The Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video of an armed clash between the Rivne region police and illegal amber miners
In the Rivne region there is an exacerbation of the “amber” war. Yesterday evening, a police task force detained several local residents who were mining “sunstone” near the village of Krupovo using motor pumps. In the evening, an angry crowd almost lynched the policemen.
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About it reports the local website “All Rivne”.
“When the Ministry of Internal Affairs tries to strictly restore order and rein in illegal amber miners, their insolent mafia bosses immediately arrive in expensive foreign cars, who allow themselves to openly, in a jeep with Kyiv region license plates, crush armed policemen. In response to this they had to use traumatic weapons. And then, with the support of the leadership of the Dubrovitsky District State Administration, the mafia provokes locals into riots and aggression towards the police. That is, according to the logic of the amber mafia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs should allow the Polesie land to continue to be devastated to please shady businessmen?”, the Rivne website quotes the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Artem Shevchenko.
Conflicts flare up in Dubrovitsa all the time, but this one is the most powerful. The price of the issue is too high: a simple prospector panning for amber earns about 1 thousand UAH per day. A kilo of stone, depending on the size, costs from $500 to $7000 (this is the cost of stones the size of a chicken egg).
“Kickback” to the police, prosecutor’s office and SBU - $700/day. Extraction is illegal: the license is too expensive, moreover, in mid-July the Ministry of Ecology revoked all permits “until the situation normalizes.” “The fact is that in China this is the year of the “sun stone.” The Celestial Empire warmed up the market: I saw how the Chinese were raking up amber rosaries in bulk in a Rivne jewelry store. They took out a wad of dollars, put it on the counter and said: “We need everything we have,” said local journalist and amber expert Vladimir Mikolaichuk.
The theft of already “arrested” amber indicates the degree of involvement of local law enforcement officers. In November 2014, 136 kilos of amber were taken right through the window of the regional police department. 5 bags were worth $500 thousand. And three weeks ago, 27 kilos worth almost $40 thousand were stolen from the evidence safe of the Ternopil city department - the amber was simply replaced. , writes the Kiev newspaper Vesti.
At the same time, the excitement is only growing, it has gotten to the point that Deputy Head of the Ministry of Ecology Svetlana Kolomiets has threatened to bring the issue to a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council and declare the mining area an environmental disaster zone (the alluvium process is detrimental to the soil).
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on its YouTube channel published an exclusive operational video from the scene of a recent armed clash between security forces and illegal amber miners in the Rivne region, which PolitNavigator previously reported.
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