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After inspecting the cargo of planks transported from Belarus in Lavoriškės on Tuesday, customs officials found a hiding place underneath: 2,800 packages of Belarusian cigarettes in the floor cavities of the semi-trailer.
September 22, 10 pm A Belarusian national who arrived at the Lavoriškės roadside post in a Scania truck declared to customs officials the plates that were transporting them to Lithuania. But customs officials, aware that timber is one of the most popular concealed smuggling cargoes, decided to inspect the truck with a mobile X-ray monitoring system. The load of wood is often just an imitation, and a cache has formed inside it, but in this case an X-ray examination revealed that the floor of the truck’s semi-trailer had a hiding place – cavities where 2,800 cigarette packs were found Belarusians from New Zealand. Its value with mandatory taxes – 9 thousand. 500 euros.
Smuggling, the truck and its driver were detained, and a pre-trial investigation for cigarette smuggling was launched in the Vilnius Section of the Criminal Customs Service (CCS), led by prosecutors from the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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