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The theft was detected on the plane arriving from the city of Burgas by Air Security officials.
When inspecting the suitcases of passengers arriving at Vilnius airport, they saw six packages wrapped in duct tape in the trunk behind the decorative wall, which at first glance looked like explosives.
The aviation security service informed the airport management and the officials of all the services working on the suspicious finding, who unanimously decided that the find could be dangerous and therefore did not need to be touched.
Agents from Aras’ team and a dog handler from the customs mobile group with a dog were summoned to the airport.
It soon became clear that there were no explosives in the packages, they were full of drugs.
An initial drug test showed it to be hashish. In total, about 10 kilograms were found.
Officials have no doubt that the cargo was not hidden in the trunk by the passengers, but by someone from the flight crew or Burgas airport staff.
According to the representative of the Criminal Customs Service (CCS) Gediminas Kulikauskas, this smuggling method is unique in all respects: the cargo was not found on the passengers or their luggage, but on the plane itself, a section to which no everyone can enter. : Tobacco and raw tobacco production equipment is transported, but no customs official remembers to transport drugs from that country.
Bulgaria is not the country from which drugs are transported. “
Drugs seized in Lithuania usually arrive in our country by road by car, sometimes by truck, but they are not destined for our market.
“We have arrested Russian citizens who were in transit through Lithuania and transporting drugs. Their arrest reveals that the drugs, mainly hashish and marijuana, were bought in Spain or France and smuggled from these countries by Morocco. These roads are known to all and not it’s surprising, ”said G. Kulikauskas.
The MKT representative pointed out that smuggling by air is not popular in Lithuania, but it does happen sometimes.
In November last year, 11 cigarette smugglers, who had up to 40 suitcases full of Belarusian cigarettes, were arrested at the Vilnius airport.
Passengers arriving from Minsk (7 Latvian citizens and 4 stateless) were detained in the airport area in the corridor of the stairs leading from the arrivals hall to the boot.
These people had already passed border control, collected their bags and stopped to consider how to avoid customs controls, thus attracting the attention of airport officials.
