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According to data from the pre-trial investigation, until June last year, the defendants, possibly illegally keeping excise goods – cigarettes and forged royal document -, an international consignment note, planned to illegally transport them from the Republic of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Sweden, reports the Attorney General’s Office.
The investigation revealed that 210,000 cigarette packs with a total customs value including taxes payable of more than 700,000. they were prepared for transport and loaded onto a tractor semitrailer. The remaining 324,500 packs of cigarettes, the total customs value of which, including taxes payable, amounts to more than 1 million euros, were illegally stored by these persons in a warehouse in the Mažeikiai district.
A remand order for the three men is a written commitment not to leave.
The investigation was conducted by the Alytus County Police Chief Commissariat’s Organized Crime Investigation Division, and Marius Venskūnas, Prosecutor of the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Division, led and supported the prosecution state in court.
The Penal Code establishes that whoever acquires, possesses, transports, dispatches, uses or disposes of goods subject to special taxes in excess of MGL 250 will be sanctioned with a fine or up to eight years in prison in violation of the established procedure. Whoever has produced a false document, falsified a genuine document or withheld, transported, sent, used or made a genuine document known as false or falsified knowingly will be punished with a fine or arrest or imprisonment of up to three years.
The criminal case will be heard by the Šiauliai Regional Court.
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