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

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