Today, at about 7 o’clock in the morning at the Aksay checkpoint on the site of the Ural border detachment during a search of the Renault car, which was traveling from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation under the control of a Russian citizen born in 1983, freshly sawn saiga horns in the amount of 128 pieces were found . total weight of about 29 kg (preliminary estimated cost of 242.4 million tenge).

The detained citizen was handed over to employees of the Burlinsky PD for further activities. This fact falls under article 339 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Illegal treatment of rare and endangered species, as well as prohibited species of plants or animals, their parts or derivatives”.

Press Service of the BS of NSC RK

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/shekaraknb/press/news/details/34850?lang=kk