Footwear for the cat's toilets

14.03.2007
How to transform tons of footwear into stuff for the cat's toilets? Businessmen who were delivered the goods to Odintsovskiy area considered that they could do that. But militiamen don’t trust in miracles.

« We don’t trust! » - have exclaimed operatives having seen with what kind of goods businessmen have stuffed a huge wagon and warehouse. By the submitted documents about 14 tons of stuff for the cat's toilets was prepared for crossing customs border. But in boxes there was footwear with trade marks of known European manufacturers. In total - 11 thousand pairs.

"Have been detain the motor vehicle of mark MAN with footwear of the Italian manufacture on a total sum more than 3 and a half millions roubles which has been brought on territory of Russia by illicit way under a kind of stuff for the cat's toilets" – told us press-secretary of the Municipal Department of Internal Affairs in the Moscow area Natalia Anashkina.

In the Russian union of consumers employees are sure that smuggling – only one of numerous negative sides of illegal dealer’s activity. In most cases the goods are produced in the nearest cellar. It is no wonder, that such "elite" footwear doesn’t maintain even half of a season. The special calculations which have been realized in the Union of consumers accentuate size of disaster.

"15% of the selling goods are officially producing and officially importing to our country. By this statistics, from 100 stopped wagons 85 must carry illegal production", - explained chairman of the consumers Union of Russia, the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Peter Shelishch.

On the fact of detention of a wagon there is already excited criminal case. Businessmen should bear the responsibility under clause "smuggling". For the completely ablation of "black importers" and dealers poor-quality footwear, as declare in the Union of consumers, are also necessary other arrangement. Including economic.

Source: www.vesti-moscow.ru/