Penza, 11 August 2014. PenzaNews. Individual entrepreneur selling imported fruit and vegetables without the necessary documents in Penza escaped with a fine of 600 rubles.

“It has been established that the businessman was attempting to sell a total of 120 kg pears from Chile, 100 kg of bananas from Ecuador, 80 kg of strawberries from Greece, 200 kg of tomatoes from Turkey, and 160 kg of oranges from South Africa, without documents confirming phytosanitary control, which is a violation of the federal legislation,” Larisa Yakushkina, spokesman of Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Monitoring Service in the Republic of Mordovia and the Penza region, told news agency “PenzaNews.”

She added that the businessman was fined under the Art. 10.3 of the Administrative Code “Violation of the rules of production, procurement, transportation, storage, processing, use and marketing of quarantined products (quarantined material, quarantined cargo).”