Polotsk border guards stopped an attempt to illegally transport tobacco products to Latvia

On the night of September 12, servicemen of the Polotsk Border Detachment prevented an attempt to illegally transport tobacco products to the Republic of Latvia.

At the Bigosovo station in the Verkhnedvinsk district, during the inspection of a freight train, boxes of cigarettes were found under a layer of coal. Smugglers attempted to transport 4,500 packs of cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps to Latvia.

The estimated value of the cigarettes amounted to 25 million 450 thousand rubles. The cigarettes were seized by customs officers, and an investigation is underway.

As of September 12, Polotsk border guards had seized cigarettes totaling over 2 billion 47 million rubles in quantity, exceeding 373 thousand packs, for the elapsed period of 2013.

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