At the checkpoint «Novaya Guta» Gomel customs officers stopped the illegal movement of a commercial batch of undeclared cosmetics across the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

A 49-year-old citizen of Ukraine, the driver of a MAN truck, said that he did not move goods that were subject to declaration.

However, during customs inspection of the truck in the driver's cab Gomel customs officers found more than one thousand units of creams, balms and gels. The total cost of undeclared cosmetics amounted to 23 thousand US dollars.

The driver intended to save more than 16 thousand Belarusian rubles on customs duties.

A citizen of Ukraine was brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine, the goods were returned to the adjacent side.

Based on the materials of Gomel customs