{"id":556865,"date":"2026-07-04T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=556865"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:41:44","slug":"belarusian-customs-seize-clothing-and-footwear-worth-4-million-rubles-at-the-russian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-customs-seize-clothing-and-footwear-worth-4-million-rubles-at-the-russian-border","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Customs Seize Clothing and Footwear Worth 4 Million Rubles at the Russian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Mahiliou customs officers have uncovered a large shipment of foreign consumer goods being transported from Russia without customs clearance. The total value of the cargo exceeded 4 million Belarusian rubles.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 88,500 items of clothing, footwear, leather goods, mobile phone cases, and other products were being transported in a DAF truck that was stopped during a special operation on the Belarusian-Russian section of the border.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who works for a Belarusian transport company, did not have the transport or cargo documentation for the goods, which were intended for sale in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative proceedings have been initiated against the legal entity under Article 13.12 of Belarus&#8217; Code of Administrative Offenses. The company faces a fine of up to 50% of the value of the goods, or up to 2 million Belarusian rubles, the press service of the Belarusian State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13433?single\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556770\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-04_12-16-22-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-04_12-16-22-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-04_12-16-22-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-04_12-16-22-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-04_12-16-22-2-768x512.jpg 768w, 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The total value of the cargo exceeded 4 million Belarusian rubles. A total of 88,500 items of clothing, footwear, leather goods, mobile phone cases, and other products were being transported in a DAF truck that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":556864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a48f17bab355.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Customs Seize Clothing and Footwear Worth 4 Million Rubles at the Russian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}