A contraband shipment of cigarettes with GPS navigation was seized on a train in Polotsk

April 2, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A contraband shipment of cigarettes with GPS navigation was seized in Polotsk, Denis Glebko, assistant head of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, told a BELTA correspondent. At the "Bigosovo" checkpoint at the Polotsk station, during the processing of a freight train traveling from Belarus to Latvia, Polotsk border guards, together with employees of the Polotsk Department of Internal Affairs on Transport and customs officers, discovered 32 boxes of cigarettes in two wagons under coal. A GPS device was also found with the cigarette cargo, which the smugglers used to track the movement of their goods. As Denis Glebko noted, this case stands out from similar incidents in that smugglers used navigation for the first time to track the movement of goods. The cost of the cigarettes is estimated at Br61.2 million. Persons involved in this offense are being identified. -0-