Vitebsk customs officers discovered cigarette smuggling worth Br190.3 million in coal wagons

March 22, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Vitebsk customs officers discovered a large batch of cigarettes in coal wagons, BELTA was informed by the Vitebsk Customs. Based on operational information, a freight train traveling on the Kiselevsk - Ventspils route from Russia to Latvia was stopped at the Bigosovo-2 RPTU. During the customs inspection of three railway gondola cars with coal, under the officially declared goods, customs and border service officers discovered 129 boxes of cigarettes, marked with Belarusian excise stamps, not indicated in the shipping documents. The illegal batch of cigarettes (64.5 thousand packs) worth Br190.3 million has been seized. Further investigation is underway.-0-