Belarusian Cigarettes Worth $1 Million Arrested In Russia

• 1.07.2023, 9:14

The largest consignment of contraband was intercepted in the Smolensk region.

In the Smolensk region of Russia, the largest batch of Belarusian cigarettes was intercepted — 920,000 packs.

A mobile group of customs and border guards stopped two trucks arriving from Belarus near the village of Prigorskoye.

There were 920,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes (25 tons) in the cars without accompanying documents. Their cost is estimated at more than 100 million Russian rubles ($1.1 million), according to the Central Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.