Stolen £1MILLION Fabergé egg encrusted with diamonds, sapphires and emeralds found wrapped in an old cloth by police during routine traffic stop

A gem-encrusted gold Fabergé egg worth more than £1million has been unearthed by French traffic police in a routine car search near the Swiss border.

Police pulled over the BMW saloon at a document check roadblock because it looked 'shabby and suspicious.'

Inside the astonished officers found the solid gold egg set with diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds wrapped in an old cloth.                                                                                                                                

Stunning: The solid gold egg worth £1million was found during a routine traffic stop by French police near the Swiss border

Two Belarus nationals - and a third arrested later - are being held by police.

‘One says they found it on the ground, another that they bought it cheaply at a flea market. They're not talking much,’ a French police official told local media.

Police eventually identified the egg - which is made of more than a kilogramme of pure gold - as one stolen from a Kuwaiti import business in Geneva four years ago.

‘We have the impression that we're dealing with a team tasked with transporting and negotiating the sale of the artwork,’ said one investigator.

Three men aged between 24 and 38 have been charged with handling stolen goods and possessing a weapon.

Precious: The gem-encrusted egg was been stolen from an import business in Switzerland four years ago

Stunning: The egg was made in the legendary Fabergé jewellery workshop

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