A batch of goods worth Br140 million without documents has been detained in the Dubrovno district

June 22, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. A batch of haberdashery and toys worth Br140 million, transported in violation of the law, was detained by employees of the Vitebsk customs in the Dubrovno district, the head of the customs' operational search department, Petr Markachevsky, told a BELTA correspondent. The goods were transported in a bus of a Belarusian carrier operating a commercial route from the Russian capital. During the inspection, customs officers found no accompanying documents for the import of a batch of belt buckles, numbering over 6,000 units, and about 6,000 toys of Chinese production. According to the driver, unknown persons from Moscow asked him to transport these goods to Minsk. The senders and recipients of the illegal goods are currently being identified. An administrative process has been initiated based on the fact of transporting goods without documents under Part 4 of Article 12.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Belarus, which provides for a penalty in the form of a fine of up to 50 base units (currently, the base unit is Br35 thousand) and confiscation of the goods. -0-