Caviar Galore! Crime wave hits the Far East of Russia with new police seizures

Police seized  three tons of red salmon caviar in cases loaded onto a truck, plus a dump containing around 50,000 gutted fish. The arrested could face up to two years in jail. There was a second unrelated 'bootleg' caviar case, said police, as reported by RIA Novosti. 

Some 100 kg of bootleg black caviar was seized on the Khabarovsk-Moscow Trans-Siberian train. 

Sturgeon caviar worth $61,000) was impounded after being discovered inside a compartment of the train's dining car en route to the capital.

A suspected smuggler who worked in the dining car was arrested.

Sturgeon fishing in the wild is banned in Russia except for scientific and breeding purposes.