Vitebsk customs stopped the illegal transportation of vegetables and fruits worth about Br320 million.

July 21, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Vitebsk customs officers have stopped the illegal transportation of a batch of fruits and vegetables from the Netherlands and Spain worth about Br320 million, the customs office informed a BELTA correspondent.

The cargo, weighing about 16 tons, was transported by a Volvo vehicle from Lithuania to Russia. A mobile group of the Vitebsk customs operational search department stopped the vehicle for document check in the Liozno district on the Belarusian-Russian border. It turned out that the Russian carrier, in violation of the law, was trying to transport fruits and vegetables without a phytosanitary certificate. As a result, the goods were seized.

Vitebsk customs has initiated an administrative process under Part 4 of Art. 12.17 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Belarus "Transportation of goods without accompanying documents," which provides for a penalty in the form of a fine of up to 50 base units (1 base unit is Br35 thousand) and confiscation of the cargo.-0-