26 January 2003
Court orders seizure of $12,000 worth of cigarettes in Brest
The court of Brest's Leninsky district on January 24 ordered the forfeiture of a shipment of imported cigarettes lacking excise stamps, which was valued at $12,000. In addition, the court imposed a fine of
240,000 rubels on its 27-year-old male owner.
Officers of the Brest Office of the Committee on Organized Crime and Corruption Prevention discovered and seized a total of 1,850 cigarette blocks during a raid on an apartment on Clara Zetkin Street in Brest on January 23, Viktor Vasilevsky, spokesman for the Brest regional
interior ministry's office, told BelaPAN. This has been the largest shipment of cigarettes with no excise stamps seized by the Brest police in recent months, he said. The police had to use a minivan to transport it.
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