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Products that have not passed quality control are supplied to Russian stores and marketplaces using fake certificates issued by laboratories from the EAEU countries.
Products that have not passed quality control end up in Russian stores and marketplaces using fake certificates.
Criminal cases have already been initiated into the issuance of 15 thousand fake certificates by organizations from Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
MOSCOW, October 9 - RIA Novosti. Goods that have not passed quality control end up in Russian stores and marketplaces using fake certificates issued by laboratories from the EAEU countries, the Izvestia newspaper reports.
“Goods that have not passed quality control end up in Russian stores and marketplaces under the cover of high-ranking EAEU officials,” the newspaper writes.
According to the publication’s sources, they act in the interests of dozens of laboratories that, without any tests or studies, draw up documents supposedly confirming the quality of products.

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