A shipment of alcoholic products worth Br159 million seized in Vitebsk

March 23, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. An illegal cargo of alcoholic beverages has been seized in Vitebsk, the Internal Affairs Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. Yesterday afternoon, employees of the 9th Department of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Special Police Unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate detained a Mercedes truck driven by an individual entrepreneur, a resident of Polotsk born in 1974. He was transporting 6.3 thousand bottles of alcoholic beverages, with a total volume of about 3.2 thousand liters and a value of Br159 million, using forged documents. An administrative protocol has been drawn up against the driver. The cargo has been seized.-0-