Finger batteries worth Br5.5 million were attempted to be smuggled into Belarus

August 15, Vitebsk. /Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. A citizen of the republic attempted to smuggle AA batteries worth almost Br5.5 million into Belarus, Denis Glebko, head of the press service of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, told a BELTA correspondent.

At the Grigorovshchina checkpoint on the Belarusian-Latvian border, servicemen of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, together with customs officers, discovered 69 undeclared packages of AA rechargeable batteries, totaling 274 units, in the trunk of a Volkswagen passenger car.

Customs authorities are conducting an investigation into this fact. -0-