Smugglers attempted to transport a wagon of cigarettes disguised as firewood from Belarus to the EU

November 2, Vitebsk /BELTA/. Border guards and customs officers in the Vitebsk region today detained the largest batch of smuggled cigarettes in recent years, Denis Glebko, assistant head of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment for Media Relations, told a BELTA correspondent. During the verification of operational information received by border guards, servicemen of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, together with customs officers and employees of the transport police department, discovered cigarettes concealed from customs clearance in a covered wagon of a freight train traveling to Daugavpils from Polotsk station. The tobacco products were transported disguised as firewood: on a pallet, there were packed boxes with cigarettes, which were covered with firewood. The transported cargo was also declared as firewood in the documents. An investigation is underway regarding this fact. The number of cigarettes is already in the hundreds of thousands of packs. According to Denis Glebko, this is the largest batch of smuggled cigarettes detained at the border with the EU in the last two years. -0-