A batch of alcohol-containing liquid worth Br150 million detained in the Orsha district

A batch of alcohol-containing liquid worth Br150 million was detained in the Orsha district, BELTA reports, citing the website of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Employees of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate (serving the Orsha district and the city of Orsha) on the Brest-Minsk-Russian Federation border highway near the village of Obukhovo, Orsha district, detained a "Renault-Master" vehicle driven by an unemployed resident of Brest born in 1976, who was transporting 2500 liters of alcohol-containing liquid (500 polyethylene canisters of 5 liters each) worth Br150 million without proper documents.

The vehicle and the cargo have been detained. The inter-district department of the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus is conducting an investigation.