Court to consider appeal of Belarusian millionaires-contrabandists on Feb.6

Euroradio correspondent found out in the press-center of Lutsk public prosecutor's office that the date of the court hearing on contrabandists' case had at last been appointed.

Public prosecutor's office: "There will be repeated hearings on the case on February 6, as appointed".

On December 19, Lutsk frontier guard brigade detained two Belarusians who tried to cross the Belarusian-Ukrainian border illegally. The contrabandists walked in the direction of the Belarusian village of Makrany and had 2,4 million dollars with them.

On December 20, the offenders were sentenced to 10 days of detention for an attempt of illegal border crossing. On January 29, the court took the decision to confiscate 2,4 million dollars and to fine the contrabandists for the same sum.

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