Since the beginning of June, Vitebsk customs officers have seized illegal cigarette shipments worth Br8.5 million.

June 11, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Since the beginning of June, Vitebsk customs officers have stopped two attempts to illegally import cigarettes worth Br8.5 million into Belarus, the department informed a BELTA correspondent. A resident of the Vitebsk region was transporting about 2,000 packs of Russian-made cigarettes without Belarusian excise stamps. The car under his control was detained on the Vitebsk-Smolensk highway. A similar product in the amount of 1.4 thousand packs was found in an Audi car of a resident of the Grodno region on the Moscow-Brest highway. In both cases, the cigarettes were intended for sale in Belarus. The illegal goods have been seized. Administrative protocols have been drawn up against their owners.-0-