YEREVAN, MAY 30. ARMINFO. A few days ago Armenian customs officers detained Kazakh citizen Aishe Haroutyunyan while trying to pass via the green zone of Zvartnots Airport (Yerevan) 430 g of diamonds and gold.
The press service of the State Customs Committee of Armenia reports that Haroutyunyan was going from Yerevan to Actau and to pass the jewelry worth an estimated 1.700 mln AMD she had wrapped it up as filling in grape leaves and placed it in a glass jar. Haroutyunyan says that in Yerevan she bought the jewelry for $3,000 but gearing that she would not be able to take them legally to Actau resorted to fraud. She has been fined for 1.247 mln AMD.
Last year customs officers detected 2 cases of contraband. The smugglers attempted to pass uncut diamonds worth $18,000. A total of 6 kg of smuggled gold and 852 carats of diamonds were seized by customs officers throughout 2004.
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