Employees of the Yahodyn Customs and border guards detained a large shipment of contraband cigarettes. According to the accompanying documents, domestically produced refrigerators were supposed to be heading to Germany in a DAF truck driven by our compatriot. However, during inspection of the truck, among the properly declared cargo, 15,500 packs of Ukrainian-made cigarettes of various brands were found. This was reported on May 23 by the State Customs Service of Ukraine.\n\nThe driver of the vehicle did not provide any documents for the export of tobacco products.\nThe cigarettes, the truck and the trailer were seized. A protocol on violation of customs rules was drawn up.\n\nOn the same day, the Central Public Relations Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Volyn region reported the detention of a KamAZ-5320 with a trailer driven by Valeriy K. (motor transport enterprise "Ovchar"), which was heading toward the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. During inspection it was established that the trailer of the vehicle contained 21,000 bottles of "Pshenychna" vodka produced by CJSC "LHVZ "Imperial" (Vinnytsia region).\n\nAccording to the accompanying documents, the seller of the vodka is CJSC "LHVZ "Imperial", and the buyer is entrepreneur Hanna Ch. from the city of Lyuboml. The value of the products is UAH 111,384. As the driver explained, he received this cargo in Uman and was supposed to deliver it to Lyuboml. Why the destination point in the waybill is the city of Kovel and how the vehicle ended up in the town of Shatsk, bypassing Kovel and Lyuboml, the driver could not explain. Entrepreneur Hanna Ch., in turn, stated that she knows nothing about this cargo.\n\nAn expert study conducted by the Research Forensic Center under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Volyn region established that the excise tax stamps on the detained alcoholic beverages were not produced by the manufacturing enterprise and are counterfeit.\n\nThe transport documents also show signs of forgery. On this fact, the inter-district prosecutor's office of the Lyuboml district opened a criminal case.