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LIPETSK/KYIV - The confectionery factory of the Ukrainian Roshen Corporation in Lipetsk (Russia) was blockaded by law enforcement officers in the morning of April 1.

According to an Interfax correspondent, the exits and entrances to the enterprise have been blocked by the special police force. There is nobody near the building in Dovatora Street. The bus in which the officers arrived is parked behind the fence.

Factory Director General Konstantin Vakhonin refused to comment on the situation, forwarding all questions to law enforcement, which in turn also refused to comment.

“We are not authorized to say anything on the issue. As for the Lipetsk police, it only deals with the protection of public order in the surrounding area,” the spokesperson of the Interior Ministry department in the region, Natalia Maslakova, told Interfax.

In 2014, the factory was repeatedly blockaded by law enforcement officers. One of the reasons given for the blockading was the company’s litigation with United Confectioners holding about the use of trademarks.