The Sheremetyevo airport custom service terminated the illegal attempt to take out four icons of the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX from Russia. The Russian Federal Customs services reported, the icons were recovered in the Italian citizen luggage, departing to Milan. Earlier he announced the absence of goods subject to obligatory written declaration. The four icons "God the Almighty", "Blessed Virgin of Iversk", "Christ?s entrance to Jerusalem" and "God the Almighty with holidays" are subject to the law "About cultural valuables export and import", noted the Russian Federal Customs services officials. According to this law, the Italian must have had special permission from the Russian Ministry of Culture for importing the icons. However he didn?t have it. Now the experts are carrying out an expertise, the question of initiation of proceedings against the detained person to be concluded on the result of it.
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