Contraband cigarettes worth almost Br90 million detained at Polotsk railway station

August 20, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Contraband cigarettes worth almost Br90 million were seized at the Polotsk railway station, Denis Glebko, assistant head of the Polotsk border guard detachment, told a BELTA correspondent. Border guards, together with customs officers and employees of the transport department of internal affairs, discovered 29,000 packs of "Premier" cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps in a train en route from Vitebsk to Daugavpils. The total cost of the cigarettes, according to preliminary data, amounted to almost Br90 million. The contraband has been seized. An investigation is underway regarding this fact. As Denis Glebko noted, since the beginning of the year, servicemen of the Polotsk border guard detachment have recorded 83 attempts to illegally move goods and materials worth Br2.8 billion across the state border, including 54 cases where smugglers attempted to transport cigarettes, their value amounting to Br2.4 billion. -0-