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Officials are not talking about this pre-trial investigation. MKT representative Gediminas Kulikauskas Delfi responded that the service would not comment on this arrest. Vilnius County Police Deputy Chief Mindaugas Stravinskas said he could not report the case because the investigation was being carried out by the MKT and not the police. He only confirmed that the police had received a message that the head of ENTV. the investigator was charged and detained. According to M. Stravinskas, this agent has worked in the police for several years, so far it has been “very positive”.
“Lukashenko is desperately pushing smuggling before the end,” customs officials said. Recently, smuggled cigarettes transported by truck from Belarus have been seized almost every day.
May 16 A Mercedes Benz truck driven by a Belarusian citizen arrived at the Medininkai roadside stand. The driver stated that he was carrying a load of jars, but an X-ray inspection of the machine revealed that there were only 4 pallets of jars stacked in the rear of the semi-trailer. The rest of the semi-trailer was filled with cigarette boxes: a total of 1,500 boxes (750 thousand packs) from various Belarusian smokers were found, the value of which was about 2.7 million. euros. The driver was detained, then arrested for a month by decision of the Vilnius District Court.
At the beginning of the investigation, MKT officials suspected that the smugglers had “their own man” at customs, who had to handle the passes of the trucks across the border. Soon, the MKT arrested the alleged customs officer. He was charged, but it was decided not to go to court for his arrest. According to unofficial data, he was not given the most severe pretrial detention because he testified.
After the detained customs officer revealed who was in charge of passing a truck with millions of euros worth of contraband across the state border, the Vilnius County Police Chief ENTV was also arrested. investigator. The court allowed him to be arrested for two weeks.
The arrest will end in the next few days. Officials do not disclose whether an extension of the detention will be requested in court.
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