Employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor and Tomsk customs found 19.5 tonnes of apples and pears in the logistics centre of the municipality of Zorkaltsev which were prohibited from being imported into the territory of the Russian Federation.
The fruits subject to sanctions have been destroyed, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, as reported by the PR service of the Tomsk customs. The boxes containing apples and pears had their labels destroyed, and a number of stickers were allegedly added confirming the “Russian” origin of the fruit.
However, during the inspection of the 14.105 tonnes of apples and 5,376 tonnes of pears, employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor found that “part of the packaging still contained labels indicating the the true country of origin of the apples was Poland and that of the pears was Belgium,” said the statement.