Vitebsk customs officers detained a cargo of cigarettes worth Br161 million.

September 6, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Vitebsk customs officers seized a cargo of cigarettes worth Br161 million, the Vitebsk customs informed a BELTA correspondent. In the Braslav district at the Urbany checkpoint, a vehicle traveling without cargo for export from Belarus, driven by a driver of the carrier company LUVEL TRANSPORTAS (Lithuania), was detained. During customs control, the department's employees discovered 20.2 thousand packs of cigarettes marked with Republic of Belarus excise stamps in the refrigerated semi-trailer. The tobacco products were hidden in a specially made compartment located in the roof of the semi-trailer. It was made by altering the factory design of the refrigerated semi-trailer: instead of the removed thermal insulation material, the perpetrators placed cigarettes. The illegal cargo worth Br161 million and a SCHMITZ semi-trailer with a compartment, with a total value of Br250 million, have been seized. An investigation is underway. -0-