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[00:00:00] of the Russian Federation in one of the districts, by-elections are being held for the legislative
[00:00:03] assembly of the region, as well as seven more municipal
[00:00:06] election campaigns, open throughout the entire region
[00:00:09] 1,852 polling
[00:00:12] stations. And it is worth noting that residents are showing
[00:00:16] a fairly high turnout compared to similar elections five years
[00:00:19] ago. According to data at 10:00 am,
[00:00:23] 24.8%
[00:00:24] of voters
[00:00:27] voted in the region, and this is, this is.
[00:01:00] Katansky and Nukutsky districts of the Irkutsk region are traditionally
[00:01:04] among the leaders in turnout, however, I will also note Slyudyansky
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[00:06:00] in the studio of the Russia 24
[00:06:04] TV channel Eduard
[00:06:06] Petrov, on Kamchatka, border guards crushed
[00:06:10] a group of poachers who were engaged in
[00:06:13] the extraction of gyrfalcons, birds listed in the Red Book
[00:06:17] of Russia.
[00:06:18] Hello,
[00:06:21] don't look around, are you watching anything
[00:06:24] today? No, the hunters fell into
[00:06:27] a trap, how poachers make money on
[00:06:31] Red Book gyrfalcons, the head
[00:06:34] is characteristic of the head of a young gyrfalcon,
[00:06:36] conspiracy above all, the whitest
[00:06:40] gyrfalcon they called "chewy" as...
[00:07:31] Over the past 5 years, the investigative department has seized
[00:07:34] 124
[00:07:35] gyrfalcons from illegal circulation.
[00:07:38] Illegal hunting of wild gyrfalcons is not a new phenomenon.
[00:07:43] These birds are often used for so-called
[00:07:46] falconry. For birds caught in the wild,
[00:07:49] especially white-colored ones,
[00:07:52] millions are offered. Illegal fishing is carried out
[00:07:56] predominantly in the central and northern latitudes of the Kamchatka
[00:08:00] Peninsula. It was there that border guards came
[00:08:03] across the participants of an organized
[00:08:07] criminal group who put illegal
[00:08:10] hunting on a stream.
[00:08:13] Who for many years helped poachers break
[00:08:17] the law, what punishment awaits
[00:08:20] them and how much a Kamchatka
[00:08:23] gyrfalcon costs on the black market? We
[00:08:26] took on this case and conducted our own investigation.
[00:09:24] These are shots of a special operation by officers of the Federal Security
[00:09:28] Service of Russia in the territory of the Omsk
[00:09:31] region. On the highway in the Lyubinsky district,
[00:09:35] a gray foreign car was stopped, from the interior
[00:09:37] of which operatives pulled out a frightened
[00:09:40] driver. Prohibited. The man
[00:09:46] says
[00:09:52] something indistinct, here are his documents, judging by
[00:09:56] them, behind the wheel of the car is a native of a neighboring
[00:10:00] state, Sultan Viysov, from which
[00:10:04] region exactly, where are you going, from where
[00:10:06] to where?
[00:10:08] Krasnoyarsk,
[00:10:10] point. Come on, tell me, from
[00:10:14] Krasnoyarsk, where are you going,
[00:10:18] to Chelyabinsk, to Chelyabinsk, for what purpose,
[00:10:22] why, what is the purpose of your trip? Do you have anything
[00:10:26] prohibited for transportation and circulation in the territory of the Russian Federation in the car
[00:10:29] you are driving?
[00:10:30] Do you have anything
[00:10:34] prohibited for circulation in the territory of the Russian
[00:10:36] Federation? No. Law enforcement
[00:10:39] officers inspect the car. The first thing that catches the
[00:10:43] eye is the trunk, suspiciously small,
[00:10:46] so much so that it barely fits
[00:10:49] a spare tire and a bag with
[00:10:51] tools.
[00:10:53] Have you made any technical changes to the trunk design,
[00:10:56] it is assumed
[00:10:59] that the trunk is significantly smaller than structurally provided
[00:11:03] by the manufacturer, that
[00:11:07] these cavities are artificially created,
[00:11:10] FSB officers were not mistaken, the trunk
[00:11:13] indeed turned out to have a double bottom, in
[00:11:16] a secret compartment several
[00:11:19] birds of prey were hidden, very similar to
[00:11:22] falcons. Respected...
[00:11:43] The inspection of the birds confirmed that the birds transported in the hideout
[00:11:47] are Red Book wild
[00:11:50] gyrfalcons.
[00:11:53] Our reference. The largest bird in the falcon
[00:11:56] family, the predator hunts mainly rodents and
[00:12:00] small animals, plumage color from white to
[00:12:03] dark, light individuals are especially valuable. More often
[00:12:07] found in Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka and Greenland.
[00:12:11] The gyrfalcon is listed in the Red Book of Russia. Punishment for
[00:12:14] smuggling and hunting gyrfalcons is regulated by articles
[00:12:17] 226.1 and
[00:12:19] 258.1 of the Criminal Code. The maximum
[00:12:23] penalty is up to...
[00:12:29] years of imprisonment, and the family is repeated, the head is characteristic of the head of a young
[00:12:32] gyrfalcon, here is this tooth on both sides of
[00:12:35] the beak, an additional tooth,
[00:12:39] so from a regular courier detention in
[00:12:42] the Omsk region a large-scale
[00:12:45] operation began to eliminate an organized
[00:12:49] criminal group of poachers, whose participants
[00:12:51] were engaged in illegal hunting
[00:12:55] and subsequent sale abroad
[00:12:58] of Red Book gyrfalcons. Work
[00:13:01] simultaneously began in several regions of the country.
[00:13:05] We will tell you how this happened a little later.
[00:13:38] Our film crew in the Moscow region in the home nursery
[00:13:41] of biologist Pyotr Volkov. Every morning
[00:13:44] he starts by feeding animals, Volkov has
[00:13:48] hundreds of them, all rare, here are
[00:13:51] Arctic white wolves, tribes.
[00:13:55] horses and dogs of different breeds, from tiny
[00:13:59] funny French bulldogs, to
[00:14:01] intimidating formidable Alabai,
[00:14:05] and also geese and ducks, but the biologist's
[00:14:09] main love is falcons,
[00:14:12] I get up around five, I leave around 63,
[00:14:15] and why so early, because birds become active
[00:14:19] at dawn, so accordingly they must have food, let's
[00:14:22] try, let's try. well, yes, it's spring
[00:14:25] now, everything has melted, so be careful, otherwise
[00:14:28] we'll slide off, oops,
[00:14:30] we can,
[00:14:34] well, let's see what conditions your
[00:14:36] falcons live in, yes, so, this is ours, well, these
[00:14:40] are flight birds, accompanied by Pyotr Volkov we enter the
[00:14:43] aviary, how many birds do you have here, there are
[00:14:46] 12 here, there are 12 aviaries with two birds each, that is, 24 birds, 24
[00:14:50] birds, yes, well, these are all breeding birds, that is, here by
[00:14:54] themselves on...
[00:15:26] but there is another variety of
[00:15:29] falcons in nature - gyrfalcons, their price is sometimes
[00:15:33] exorbitant, in the home nursery of Pyotr Volkov such
[00:15:36] a bird.
[00:16:14] Then one sensor
[00:16:17] is put on, if you look closely,
[00:16:21] you can see it, here is the fastener, and
[00:16:24] then a radio sensor is installed, it has both
[00:16:28] a radio signal and a GPS signal, but if everything is lost, I can find it by the towers,
[00:16:32] even if it's in Magadan, now it
[00:16:35] will fly. For such gyrfalcons,
[00:16:39] professional celestial hunters, in some countries
[00:16:43] they are ready to offer a whole
[00:16:45] fortune.
[00:16:55] And we will move to Kamchatka, to where
[00:16:58] the main events unfolded for
[00:17:00] the exposure and liquidation
[00:17:03] of the organized crime group.
[00:17:09] In the summer of 2022, officers of the border department
[00:17:13] of the FSB of Russia for the Eastern Arctic
[00:17:16] region received information: a certain citizen
[00:17:20] who was actively interested in gyrfalcons arrived in
[00:17:23] Kamchatka. The man was put
[00:17:26] under surveillance and checked against databases. Mikhail
[00:17:29] Zubkov - a military pensioner, a citizen
[00:17:33] of Kazakhstan, known in certain circles by the
[00:17:36] nickname.
[00:18:07] conspiracy, of these individuals,
[00:18:11] while the birds were called
[00:18:13] coho salmon, chum salmon,
[00:18:16] chinook salmon, well, the white gyrfalcon, as the whitest
[00:18:20] gyrfalcon is called, which has up to several
[00:18:23] spots on its chest, they called it chinook salmon, but
[00:18:27] the black black, gray gyrfalcon they
[00:18:31] called chum salmon, pink salmon, that is, it's a second-rate
[00:18:34] bird that you can get less for.
[00:18:39] Yes, which in fact costs an order
[00:18:42] of magnitude cheaper, well, for example, a gray bird on the black
[00:18:45] market in the Kamchatka Territory costs
[00:18:49] 2-300 US dollars, a white
[00:18:53] bird costs approximately from five to
[00:18:55] 15, everything depends on the size of the floor and its
[00:18:59] condition. What is "brick" in poachers' slang? It's a Gyrfalcon,
[00:19:03] a sexually mature gyrfalcon. Here is
[00:19:06] a fragment of one of the conversations that the operatives managed to record:
[00:19:10] Mikhail Zubkov is talking to a comrade
[00:19:13] and gives him a specific task,
[00:19:17] such a question, Kolya, if
[00:19:20] these 4 tons will be all these
[00:19:24] coho salmon, uh-huh, dark, then
[00:19:27] this is kind
[00:19:29] of neither
[00:19:33] here nor there, if they are all solid.
[00:20:38] also took into operational development,
[00:20:40] it turned out not in vain, just a few days later in
[00:20:43] Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky a meeting took place between Mikhail Zubkov
[00:20:47] and Nikolai Ovcharenko, a conversation with...
[00:21:23] friends enthusiastically talked about devices for
[00:21:27] catching Red Book gyrfalcons. As a result,
[00:21:30] the accomplices concluded an agreement, Ovcharenko
[00:21:33] undertook to obtain six gyrfalcons, and Zubkov in turn
[00:21:36] promised to pay 25,000
[00:21:39] this.
[00:21:41] dollars for
[00:21:45] Immediately after the meeting, the fireman Nikolai
[00:21:48] Ovcharenko went home.
[00:22:20] was responsible for the place of temporary detention. The next conversation between
[00:22:24] Mikhail Zubkov and Nikolai Ovcharenko took place after
[00:22:27] 3 months. The fireman reported that the required
[00:22:31] number of gyrfalcons had been caught and now the entire
[00:22:34] batch needed to be sent to
[00:22:36] Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. From that moment on,
[00:22:39] border guards did not take their eyes
[00:22:41] off Zubkov, who in the meantime was looking for a place
[00:22:45] for temporary housing for the birds. Finally,
[00:22:48] he rented a garage on the outskirts of the city in the area of Omskaya
[00:22:52] Street. In the evening, at
[00:22:55] 11 PM, surveillance was set up for the specified
[00:22:59] garage, during which it was established
[00:23:02] that at about 23 hours a taxi
[00:23:05] arrived, and from its trunk,
[00:23:08] Zudkov personally carried out two bags containing
[00:23:11] the birds. After 15 minutes, this
[00:23:15] was done to make sure
[00:23:18] what
[00:23:20] Zubkov would do? The taxi left, the taxi
[00:23:23] left, the specified citizen entered the garage and began
[00:23:27] to arrange the birds. After 15 minutes, we entered the garage,
[00:23:30] found the specified birds prohibited
[00:23:34] for circulation and the specified citizen
[00:23:38] of Kazakhstan was detained. It is obvious that for Mikhail Zubkov, the visit
[00:23:41] of operatives in masks with weapons was a
[00:23:45] big
[00:23:46] surprise.
[00:23:50] Stop, hold the car, on the ground, hold
[00:23:53] the car, hands behind
[00:23:56] your head,
[00:24:00] hold the second one, how he leaves, what
[00:24:03] don't break your leg, hands
[00:24:05] are asleep, at
[00:24:08] the exit, I get up on one leg, good
[00:24:12] evening, will you resist, what resistance, we stand calmly,
[00:24:16] 70 years of resistance, my leg does not bend, look me in
[00:24:19] the face. Your full name, Mikhail Ivanovich,
[00:24:23] full name, Zubkov, what
[00:24:26] Zubkov, Zubkov, where were you born in full, date, month, year
[00:24:30] of birth, fifth of March, fifty-
[00:24:32] fourth, native of, stand still,
[00:24:35] native of, what
[00:24:39] second,
[00:24:42] the second one left, put it again, Sovgavan, Sovgavan,
[00:24:45] understood, who was with you the second time here, did you find
[00:24:49] him? Yes, yes, all right, yes, we'll figure it out now,
[00:24:52] your comrade, yes, what are you doing here,
[00:24:56] came to look at what, at
[00:24:59] the animals, what?