In the Dubrovno district, illegal transportation of pigs worth Br56 million was stopped.

January 13, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Illegal transportation of pigs worth over Br56 million was stopped in the Dubrovno district on the border with Russia by employees of the Dubrovno District Department of Internal Affairs, the information and public relations department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department informed a BELTA correspondent. On the Brest-Minsk-Russian border highway near the village of Redki, law enforcement officers stopped a KamAZ truck driven by a Russian citizen, which was carrying 70 pigs weighing almost 7.7 tons destined for a private enterprise in the Smolensk region. As established during the inspection, the cargo was transported using falsified documents. An administrative process has been initiated in this regard under Part 4 of Article 12.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Belarus, which provides for a fine ranging from 30 to 50 base units. The cargo has been seized. The materials will be submitted to the court for a decision on bringing the perpetrators to justice and the possible confiscation of the cargo. -0-