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According to preliminary data, around 480 thousand tons were transported. smokers packs worth nearly 2 million. reported by the Criminal Customs Service.
According to customs forensic scientists, there may be one or more illegal factories operating on the territory of Latvia, producing counterfeit cigarettes of known types, which are transported to both Lithuania and Western Europe.
On Tuesday (October 27), officers from the mobile groups of the Kaunas Territorial Customs, which were patrolling the main A10 road, stopped and inspected the vehicles. At approximately 1 pm 45 min. Officials stopped a Scania truck driven by an Estonian resident in the village of Talačkonys.
The driver presented documents to the officials who, in transit through Lithuania to the Netherlands, for destruction, transported various wastes loaded in Latvia: cars, furniture, sporting goods, plastic parts.
However, as soon as they opened the door of the semi-trailer, officials saw that it was full of cigarette boxes (a total of 1920 boxes were found in all). There was hardly any attempt to disguise the illegal fight, it was covered by a loading platform with plastic debris. In total, according to a preliminary estimate, about 480 thousand. Winston Gold Blue cigarette pack without stamps. Its value with the mandatory taxes to pay is 1 million. 756 thousand euros.
Officials from the Criminal Customs Service (CCS) detained the illegal driver and cargo, a pre-trial investigation was launched into the illegal disposal of excise goods in the Kaunas section of the CCP, which is led by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Kaunas. A decision on the arrest of an Estonian resident will be made on Friday at the Kaunas District Court.
Customs officials suspect that the seized smokers are likely to be fakes manufactured in an illegal tobacco factory in Latvia. In recent years, customs officials have seized a large quantity of these shadow smokers. Cigarettes made in Belarus are also often smuggled from Latvia.
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