5000 Nokia Phones Seized at St. Petersburg, Russia Port

MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- A consignment of smuggled Nokia mobile phones was seized in St. Petersburg at the end of last week, the Vedomosti daily said Tuesday, citing customs officials.

The paper quoted Alexander Yablokov, a spokesman for the Baltiiskaya Customs House, as saying the phones, whose value he put at EUR600,000, arrived without the necessary customs documents.

The seizure follows the arrest of several large consignments of contraband phones in Moscow in August and comes as part of an ongoing operation by Russian law enforcement agencies, it added.

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