Kamchatka opens criminal case over poached 18 tonnes of red caviar.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Kamchatka opened a
criminal case over an attempted illegal sea trafficking of poached 18
tonnes of red caviar from the settlement of Ossora in the Karaga district
of the Kamchatka Territory to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the press service
of the Federal Security Service department in the Kamchatka Territory told
Itar-Tass on Monday.
The poached red caviar was found onboard the Gritan freighter, which
was about to set off from Ossora on October 4. Two people were
accompanying the poached red caviar supply. One of them produced an
identity card of an operative from the crime security department in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. He claimed that the caviar was confiscated from
the poachers and passed for storage and transportation to the company
Galatea-Khabarovsk. The authenticity of the documents, which he produced,
was suspicious. The detectives found out later that the man, who
introduced himself as a police officer, is the former policeman, who
failed to pass the reclassification in July 2011.
Another major red caviar batch with a total weight of more than three
tonnes was detained on October 5 near the village of Karaga in the Karaga
district of the territory. The poachers were seeking to airlift the red
caviar supply to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by a helicopter Mi-8 belonging
to the Vertical-T air company without any documents, which validated the
transportation and caviar fishing. The investigation in the caviar
poaching case was launched.