Anders Martin Forss, 35, first secretary of the trade and economy department at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow, personally brought the goods across the border, Alexei Gnatyuk, a senior Moscow police official, told NTV late Monday.
NTV showed police footage of Forss unloading boxes with the goods from a car with red diplomatic license plates and handing them over to a store on Ulitsa Kakhovka for resale.
Police spokeswoman Irina Yurova said Tuesday that police officers approached Forss at the store but refused to say whether Forss was suspected of smuggling.
The police officers could not detain Forss because of his diplomatic status but informed the Foreign Ministry of the incident, Yurova told The Moscow Times.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has dismissed Forss for violating diplomatic rules by getting involved in commerce, and he has left Russia, senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Nikolai Sandros told NTV.
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said by telephone that the ministry would have no comment on the report.
A spokesman at the Swedish Embassy directed inquiries to the Swedish Foreign Ministry, where a spokesman refused to comment.
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