Kaliningrad customs detained on the border with Poland more than 3.7 tons of pork, illegally imported into Russia by two residents of the area. About TASS reported on Wednesday, the press service of the Ministry reported.

Food sanctions do not relate to products imported into Russia personally citizens. But this does not mean to carry you all and in any quantity.

The cargo was transported in sealed camper. In the customs Declaration he made was not. After detection of product owners admitted that they purchased it at a wholesale basis in Poland. They stated that the receipts, proof of purchase and cost of production, not preserved, and the meat purchased for himself and his friends.

The products are detained. Against violators prosecuted cases on administrative violations.

Area residents and citizens of the border States, mainly Lithuania and Poland continue to illegally bring in Kaliningrad pork bypass all restrictions. According to the regional office of Rosselkhoznadzor, in recent months the number of cases detected is increased. For the first 9 months of 2014, the Agency seized from individuals of more than 20 tons of meat. Detained more than 1.5 thousand violators, 7 times more than in the same period of 2013.