Polotsk border guards stopped an attempt to smuggle a large batch of cigarettes

On the afternoon of April 28, Polotsk border guards, together with employees of the Vitebsk customs, the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Polotsk Department of Internal Affairs on Transport, and the Polotsk District Department of Internal Affairs, thwarted an attempt to transport the largest batch of cigarettes this year at the Polotsk station.

In a freight railway car transiting through Belarus from Russia to Latvia, 448 thousand packs of cigarettes were discovered, the value of which is estimated at Br3 billion. At the same time, the accompanying documents for the car indicated containers for the production of plastic bottles.

The illegal batch of tobacco products has been seized. An investigation is underway.

Press service of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment