Increasing amount of smuggled foods in Russia

Following the import ban, the amount of food products smuggled from the EU via Belarus to Russia has increased – the Austrian ORF TV channel reports.

According to the Russian Interfax news agency, the food supervision in Moscow found peaches and nectarines smuggled from Spain, and other food products smuggled from Poland.

In recent weeks, dozens of similar-compliances were reported. The Russian media has reported that as the result the import ban of the crisis, cheeses and dairy products are also exported to Belarus, where these EU products are re-labeled as Ukranian and exported illegally to Russia. (Világgazdaság Online)