Belarus became the leader of re-exporting banned products to Russia, according to the statement of the Federal Customs Service. Customs authorities initiated 256 administrative cases on re-export of banned food to Russia country. After Belarus, Lithuania and Poland follow (112 cases), then Ukraine (39 cases) and Kazakhstan (28 cases), Latvia (26 cases), followed by Finland (22 cases) and Estonia (18 cases).
In total, the Russian authorities initiated 23 criminal cases and 550 administrative. In 2015, from August 7 to December 31, the Federal Customs Service detained more than 1 000 tons of banned products in the amount of 138.7 million rubles.