24 August, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. A large consignment of aluminium alloy has been detained in Lepel district, the Information and Public Relations Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate informed a BELTA correspondent. Late at night on the Vitebsk-Minsk highway, traffic police officers of the Lepel District Department of Internal Affairs detained a MAZ-MAN truck with a semi-trailer, driven by a resident of Vileyka born in 1987, near the district centre. Without the appropriate accompanying documents, the driver was transporting 20 tonnes of secondary aluminium alloy worth Br340 million. The consignment has been detained. The materials concerning this incident have been sent to the Novopolotsk Inter-district Department of the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus.-0-

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