ROLE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE IN

SPOTTING OF TRANS-BORDER

CHANNELS THAT ARE USED FOR

ILLEGAL CONVEYANCE OF

MATERIALS CONTAINING PRECIOUS

METALS

Sergey Kuzmin

the Senior scientist of RFCFS;

the associate professor of RUDN University

GLOBALIZATION OF CRIMES

TRANS-BORDER TRAFFICKING OF

PRECIOUS METALS AND GEMS

TRANSIT OF PGM-BEARING

PRODUCTS

COMPLEX ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE FOR

IDENTIFICATION OF THE NATURE AND THE

SOURCE OF ORIGIN OF PRECIOUS METALS

CONTAINING PRODUCTS OF MINING AND

METALLURGICAL OPERATIONS (CIP)

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to classify the material subjected to expertise as a PGM- bearing product,

evolved from mineral raw materials

to diagnose a one-component material or each component of a mixed

composition by its nature, type and evolving conditions

to identify a PGM-bearing product or each component in a mixed

composition by its source of origin

COMPLEX ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF THE NATURE AND THE SOURCE OF ORIGIN OF PRECIOUS METALS CONTAINING PRODUCTS OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL OPERATIONS (CIP)

METHODICAL APPROACHES TO

CRIMINALISTICS IDENTIFICATION OF PGM-

BEARING PRODUCTS

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3

Determination of the

“pseudo-phase”

composition by the

method of Scanning

Electron Microscopy

Study of elemental

composition

Comparison with data

in the Date Base

Data

Base

Digital

data

Physical

samples

NATIONAL LEVEL

Development

•Institute of Criminalistics of the Russian Federal Security Service

•Research Departments of the Norilsk Nickel Mining Company

Validation and

certification

•Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice

Practical use

•Police investigations

•Criminal and civil courts

•Customs control

INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Ways

to

use

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of

the C

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Transfer of the methodology of CIP to foreign forensic experts

International scientific confirmation of the validity of CIP

A BIT OF HISTORY

Chairman of the Board

Prof. Ingvar Kopp

The Team

TNO

VALIDATION ALGORITHM

The validation of

the analytical

methods of the CIP

• TNO

The forensic

validation of the CIP• Board

Preparation of final

report• Board

SOME CONCLUSIONS

State support for accreditation of

forensic laboratories

The development of

standardization in the field of

forensic science

Legislative consolidation of

mandatory validation of forensic

methods [expected]

Providing courts with

reliable information

about the different

expert organizations

and used their

methods

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION