Customs agents found contraband worth almost half a million euros in a truck carrying mail



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Night from Wednesday to Thursday, around 2 p.m. 40 minutes later, a Russian citizen who arrived at the Medininkai road post from the Republic of Belarus in a Scania truck told officers that he was heading to the Kaliningrad region in Russia, where the postal items were transported, the Service reports. Customs Criminal.

But customs officials decided to inspect the X-ray control system on this tractor. It later turned out that part of the bags marked with the logos of the postal items were full of cigarette contraband. A total of 126,500 packages of Belarusian NZ Gold cigarettes were found in the bags. Its value, including mandatory taxes, is 442,750 euros.

A pre-trial investigation for smuggling was launched at the Vilnius branch of the Criminal Customs Service and the driver of the tugboat was detained for two days. The investigation is led by the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

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