Three Arrested in Radioactive Sale Attempt
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 1:40 pm PST • Views: 259
No details yet on exactly what kind of material was found: $1M Worth of Radioactive Material Seized.
The Slovakian police today arrested three people for trying to sell more than 2 pounds of radioactive material, a police spokesman told ABC News.
The radioactive material was seized near the border of Ukraine, between Slovakia and Hungary, Slovakian police spokesman Martin Korch said. He did not know the type of radioactive material seized, and the police did not reveal any information about the alleged intended buyer.
Two of the suspects were arrested in eastern Slovakia, the other in Hungary, in a coordinated Slovak-Hungarian police operation, Korch told ABC News. He said the suspects, whose nationalities he did not identify, had been under surveillance for several months by both Slovak and Hungarian authorities.
Specialists were examining the radioactive material, which the three were trying to sell for $1 million, said Korch.
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