SUMY, Ukraine -- Ukrainian border guards say they confiscated money from a vehicle in the eastern region of Sumy over the weekend after finding the cash was emitting radiation, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
The Sumy border guards' press service told journalists on April 3 that a Mercedes automobile was stopped at the Yunakivka checkpoint along the Ukrainian-Russian border because a high radiation level was detected.
The vehicle's owner was heading from Ukraine to Russia.
The border guards, together with environmental-control officers, checked the car and found an envelope with cash emitting radiation several times higher than the norm.
Environmental-control officers and experts from the Extraordinary Situations Ministry are investigating the incident.
Neither the currency nor the amount of cash was disclosed.
Read more in Ukrainian here
The Sumy border guards' press service told journalists on April 3 that a Mercedes automobile was stopped at the Yunakivka checkpoint along the Ukrainian-Russian border because a high radiation level was detected.
The vehicle's owner was heading from Ukraine to Russia.
The border guards, together with environmental-control officers, checked the car and found an envelope with cash emitting radiation several times higher than the norm.
Environmental-control officers and experts from the Extraordinary Situations Ministry are investigating the incident.
Neither the currency nor the amount of cash was disclosed.
Read more in Ukrainian here