Illegal export of beef worth Br800 million to Russia stopped in Liozno district

October 29, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A batch of beef worth over Br800 million has been confiscated in the Liozno district, as reported at a briefing by the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (UCEC) of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, a BELTA correspondent reports. Employees of the economic crimes police and the State Automobile Inspectorate on the Vitebsk - Liozno - Russian Federation border road near the village of Zaolsha stopped a truck driven by an employee of a Russian firm. The man was attempting to export more than 20 tons of meat to Russia, for part of which documents were missing or did not correspond to reality: the waybills were issued for cargo similar in description. The illegal batch of meat, the largest detained in the region this year, has been confiscated. The products have been transferred for safekeeping to the Vitebsk Cold Storage Plant. The truck has been seized. An administrative report has been drawn up against the legal entity under Part 4 of Article 12.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus. In total, this year, law enforcement officers in the Vitebsk region have carried out more than 30 detentions of illegal meat cargoes (pork, beef), resulting in the seizure of about 80 tons of products worth over Br2 billion. -0-