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Police seize $750,000 worth of cut diamonds in Moscow Region

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Entrepreneurs who tried to sell 19.5 million rubles ($750,000) worth of cut diamonds in the north of the Moscow Region have been detained, Russian police said Thursday.
MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Entrepreneurs who tried to sell 19.5 million rubles ($750,000) worth of cut diamonds in the north of the Moscow Region have been detained, Russian police said Thursday.

"Moscow regional police and their colleagues from the Russian Interior Ministry anti-organized crime department conducted an operation to detain diamond traders. Officers had information thanks to which they detained red-handed the general director of a commercial company and a manager of another firm. Both had convictions earlier," a police source said.

He said another person involved was detained as well.

Diamonds and jewelry were seized from the detainees, who, police said, were members of an organized criminal group.

An investigation is underway.

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