23 May 2002
Two people fined in Kobrin for illegal border crossing

 Two Kobrin, Brest region, residents - a man and a woman - have been sentenced to fines totaling 6.1 million rubels (approx. $3,460) for a second within a year illegal crossing of the Belarusian border. The man, a citizen of Russia born in 1955 who has permission to reside in Belarus, and the woman, a Belarusian citizen born in 1957, were first arrested by border guards on May 31, 2001, while attempting to smuggle 1 million rubels worth of foodstuffs into Ukraine, the State Border Troops Committee's press office reported. They had both the car they kept the goods in and the foodstuffs confiscated by the court. Each of them also had to pay $17 in fines.
Border guards arrested the two again in the Pinsk Border Control Unit's area on February 8 while they were attempting to illegally enter Ukraine in a car.