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Due to complex loading operations, customs officials only finished counting a shipment of illegal smokers detained at the Vaidotai railway station last weekend. More than 17 thousand. Cigarette packs in charcoal bags were detected in a freight car of a train arriving from Belarus. As a result of this incident, officers of the Criminal Customs Service (CCS) arrested and interrogated an employee of a Vilnius coal-importing company and a person involved in the crime.
The cigarette smuggling was seen on April 24. in the afternoon, at the Vilnius Vaidotai railway station, during the inspection of a train car with a load of coal loaded from Belarus by the Vilnius territorial customs officials.
The cigarettes were not in all the bags, so the officers had to dig up the entire load in the car, about 10 tons.
Smokers were hidden in paper bags, along with charcoal. Since the cigarettes were not in all the bags, customs officials had to carry out a detailed inspection of the entire load in the car, which weighed approximately 10 tons. 17,300 packets of Belarusian NZ Gold and Minsk cigarettes were found, the value of which, including taxes, is approximately 61 thousand. Gediminas Kulikauskas, public relations representative of the Customs Criminal Service, said in a statement released on Friday.
A pre-trial investigation into smuggling was initiated at the Vilna branch of the MKT and is led by the Third Prosecution Division of the Vilnius Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Forensic customs scientists arrested and interrogated the suspects as employees of a Vilnius coal-importing company and a person related to the crime, who may have contributed to the crime. Written promises were made not to leave both suspects.
This is the fourth major interception of cigarette smuggling in rail transport this year, and the other three occur at the Kena rail post.
January 14 about 100,000. Cigarettes worth € 1 million were found in a load of reference blocks transported by train from Belarus: packed in iron “coffins” and covered in concrete.
A similar smuggled shipment was detected on February 25 among a shipment of powdered milk transported from Belarus.
And on March 4, cigarette smuggling was found in a load of boards transported from Belarus by train to a Kaunas company: the boards were just a “shell” for the cigarette-smuggling shelters installed inside.
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