Pskovskaya tamozhnya: Labrador Retriever Phil went on a “hunt”
Pskovskaya tamozhnya: Labrador Retriever Phil went on a “hunt”
At the customs post MAPP (multilateral automobile checkpoint) Burachki Pskov customs at the Russian-Latvian border customs officials and Border Department of the FSB of Russia in the Pskov region stopped two attempts of illegal movement of cigarettes hidden from customs control. To expose the “enterprising” carriers helped Labrador Retriever Phil.
Two vehicles of international transportation according to the presented to customs documents followed in Latvia without cargo, the goods are not moved. However, when inspection of vehicles service dog Phil and trained in tobacco goods showed alarm behavior upon detection of the odor of tobacco.
The vehicle is sent for inspection with use of inspection complexes. As a result of customs inspections in technological cavities of the truck revealed hidden from customs control cigarettes marked with excise stamps of the Republic of Belarus. In the first case – 450 packs of cigarettes. The second 1000 packs of cigarettes.
Prosecuted administrative offences. Cigarettes seized.
Natalia Knyazeva,
press Secretary of the Pskov customs