Polotsk border guards stopped an attempt to smuggle cigarettes

Last night, acting on information received from personnel of military unit 1250 of the State Border Committee, together with Polotsk border guards, officers of the Vitebsk customs and officers of the Novopolotsk Department for Combating Economic Crimes, near the railway track in the Polotsk district, two citizens of Belarus, born in 1977 and 1988, both residents of Polotsk, were detained while attempting to load about 2,000 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes without excise stamps into a freight train traveling on the route Polotsk-Daugavpils.

For further proceedings, the detainees were handed over to the officers of the Novopolotsk Department for Combating Economic Crimes.

Protocols for illegal movement and storage of tobacco products have been drawn up against the offenders. They will be brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine of up to 50 base units.

The estimated value of the cigarettes and the exact quantity are being determined.

Press service of the Polotsk Border Detachment