In Georgia, a man tried to sell a nuclear Uranium-238 to a foreigner

In Georgia, State Security Service officers detained a man who planned to sell Uranium-238 nuclear material to a foreigner. Interpressnews agency reports this.

The defendant intended to receive 700 thousand dollars for this.

“As a result of a joint operation, employees of the counterintelligence and operational departments of the State Security Service of Georgia arrested a Georgian citizen for illegal handling of nuclear materials, namely the radioactive substance uranium,” the publication says.

A criminal case was initiated against the man. It is specified that he faces up to ten years in prison.