Last weekend Smolensk customs officers have detained two vehicles with fruit from the sanctions list

Last weekend Smolensk customs officers have detained two vehicles with fruit from the sanctions list

Cars detained during joint actions of customs officials with representatives of the Border Department of the FSB of Russia in the Smolensk region. Weight imported with violations of goods amounted to about 40 tons.

One carrier refrigerator camouflaged under a tilt trailer. It was transported from Belarus to Russia about 20 tons of apples without supporting documents. Country of origin of goods, according to the labeling on the container, is Moldova.

The driver of the second transport introduced the documents (CMR, invoice, Declaration of conformity) according to which from Germany to Moscow was imported medicines.

– During the inspection it was found that in the cargo hold, according to the label, was moved about 20 tons of Belarusian apples that was without shipping documents and the phytosanitary certificate confirming their phytosanitary safety said the chief of the customs control after release of goods of the Smolensk customs Dmitry Vasyukov.

For additional validation of both the car with fruit customs officers transferred to the staff of the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the Bryansk and Smolensk regions.