OREANDA-NEWS. September 14, 2009. The State Control Committee had studied the situation with the government’s efforts to curb intermediary operations and detected instances of unscrupulous intermediary services during construction of budget-financed entities, the press service of President Alexander Lukashenko reported following Lukashenko’s meeting with State Control Committee Chief Zenon Lomat.

Lomat said the Committee focused on availability of Belarusian goods, import substitution, intermediary operations and inventories.

Also, the Committee notes ungrounded consumer imports, with analogous products made by domestic producers, and imports of commodities that fail to meet packaging and marking requirements.

Also, some import-substituting products remain unwanted in the retail network.

Lomat also reported to the president that the overall number of inspections had been reduced 36% in January-August to 4,404, and all inspections based on reliable information about contraventions of law appear to be efficient.

The Committee’s financial police initiated 990 criminal cases and filed 8.4 billion Belarusian rubles’ worth of administrative fines.