MOSCOW, March 26 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s Buryat Republic will consider a criminal case over illegal sale of semi-precious nephritic stone, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office has told RAPSI.

According to investigators, between May 2012 and November 2019, a man quarried jade green unfired bricks of mass about 1.3 tonnes to the value of 5.7 million rubles (over $75,000) without approval documents. Allegedly, he kept the metal in his car shed and then attempted to sell it to a foreigner.

His actions were averted during the stone demonstration to a buyer in October 2020, the statement reads.