The amount of smuggled meat which is trying to bring to the Russian Federation passengers Ukrainian trains has increased almost ten times, he was brought in the heat in the cabin and the cargo compartment, said at the Bryansk customs.
" Since August on Ukrainian trains were identified for more than three tons of illegal meat and meat products, whereas during the same period 2013 customs officials confiscated only about 250 kg of meat, " said the ITAR-TASS head Volodarsky customs post Gennady Tolochko. At the customs office added that often the number of attempts to smuggle meat From Ukraine increased only in the cold season. But this year, smuggling has increased for several months before the introduction of the Russian embargo on the supply of food from a number of foreign countries, and Since then has not decreased. Most large batch of illegal products tied to the Bryansk customs on August 8. As stated in the press service of the regional Department of the Rosselkhoznadzor, the passengers trains of " Odessa - Moscow " confiscated more than 400 kg Australian meat. The company Australia 170 inspected, who was a producer, not officially have the right to import livestock products even to Ukraine. At the Bryansk customs emphasize that, As a rule, destination smugglers - Moscow, But already seized in Bryansk meat " has all the signs of a bad product." For the period Since January of this year, customs officials, With the office of Rosselkhoznadzor for the Bryansk and Smolensk oblasts did not allow the importation into the Russian Federation more than 38 tons of smuggled meat and meat raw materials From the Ukraine. First Tuesday in the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for the region Crimea and Sevastopol told that Ukrainian businessmen tried to bring to the Peninsula six tons of Brazilian pork under the guise of fish.

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