BRIT NABBED AT CROSSING POINT

Online edition Visnyk reports that an unamed British investor was detained at the border between the Ukraine and Slovakia. The in investor heads a clothing factory in Transcarpatian Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod. The Customs officers found in the luggage of the UK citizen a medal issued in Czechoslovakia in 1935 to commemorate the 85-th anniversary of president Tomas Masarik. The Englishman explained that the medal had been given to him as a gift by another clothing factory director. The Customs officers confiscated the medal and sent it to the local Museum of Arts for evaluation by experts. The authorities drew up an official report on the incident. Visnyk does not mention what punishment the investor could face.