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Cigarettes were found in one of the freight cars of the train, which was carrying a shipment of powdered serum to Klaipeda. Twenty boxes of illegal smokers weren’t even minimally disguised, they just lay openly loaded on a load of powdered milk, reports the Criminal Customs Service.
In all, customs officials found 10,000 in the wagon. package of Belarusian cigarettes “Fest”, the value of which, including taxes, is 34 thousand. euros. A pre-trial investigation into this smuggling has been launched in the Vilnius section of the Criminal Customs Service and is led by the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
MKT nuotr./Rasta contraband
This is not the first time that illegal smokers have been stopped by rail this year. For example, January 14. some 100,000 people were detained at the same Kena train station. smuggling of cigarettes worth euros. The cigarettes were hidden in a shipment of foundations transported by train from Belarus: packed in iron “coffins” and covered with concrete.
In recent years, the railway has become one of the most used by smugglers to transport illegal goods. For this reason, for many years there has been talk of the need to install X-ray control systems for the continuous control of trains.
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