Vitebsk customs officers stopped the illegal import of a large batch of imported cigarettes

August 31, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Vitebsk customs officers have stopped the illegal import of over 4,000 packs of imported cigarettes, Petr Markachevsky, head of the customs' anti-smuggling and administrative offenses department, told a BELTA correspondent. Marlboro, Parliament, LM, and several other popular brands of cigarettes were found in the luggage compartment of a Setra bus, which was stopped for inspection on a section of the Brest-Moscow highway in the Dubrovno district. The tobacco products were transported in violation of the legislation regulating the circulation of excisable goods. A total of 8 boxes of cigarettes were seized. The value of the cargo, according to preliminary estimates, is about Br14.5 million. An administrative process has been initiated against the bus driver, a resident of Minsk, under Part 1 of Article 12.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Belarus ("Illegal import, transportation, storage of tobacco products").-0-