Mongolian Police Uncovers Cross Border Smuggling Organization | Ubpost News: "The Unuudur’s newspaper’s journalist G.Tsolmon reports that foreign media is talking about the issue of the fossils skeleton of the Tarbosaurus Bataar’s which was smuggled from Mongolia. Not long ago the Mongolian Criminal Police department found significant evidence that proved that the fossil bones of the dinosaur was excavated in Mongolia.
It was reported on Mongolian media that N.Tuvshinjargal , the Mongolian citizen who had smuggled the fossil skeleton, had passed away last year. Two additional suspects who were accused of finding and supplying N.Tuvshinjargal with the prehistoric fossils were released on bail after they were questioned by the police.
After the questioning, the Mongolian Criminal Police Department uncovered a cross border criminal organization involving N.Tuvshinjargal (the Mongolian citizen), Eric John Prokopi (the US citizen), Chris Moore (a UK citizen), Baats (a Japanese citizen) and another South Korean, that traded paleontological artefacts.
It was found that the above five smuggled and sold two complete fossil skeletons of dinosaurs, a fossil dinosaur head, a fossil spine and many other items to collectors around the world."
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