Donatas ŠKarnulis: While Cigarette Smuggling From Belarus Is Decreasing, Counterfeits From Latvia Are Increasing
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The Interim Head of the Lithuanian State Border Protection Service (VSAT), Donatas Scarnulis, said that, as law enforcement agencies intensified their fight against balloons transporting smuggled cigarettes from Belarus, the number of counterfeit tobacco products from Latvia was increasing.
The acting commander of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Donatas Škarnulis, says that as law enforcement intensifies the fight against balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes from Belarus, the number of counterfeit tobacco products in Latvia is increasing.
Cigarettes smugglers from Belarus have given up their positions in recent years, the main challenge for Lithuanian border guards has now been counterfeit cigarettes from Latvia, as announced by the Interim Head of the State Border Protection Service, Donatas Scarnulis. "The general change in direction is that the share of tobacco smuggling from Belarus is decreasing. In the run-up to several years it is Latvian counterfeit tobacco products from …
The smuggling of counterfeit tobacco products from Latvia is on the rise in Lithuania after authorities tried to curb the smuggling of cigarettes with meteorological balloons from Belarus, Acting Head of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service Donatas Škarnulis said on Monday.
The acting commander of the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Donatas Škarnulis, says that as law enforcement steps up the fight against the transportation of smuggled cigarettes from Belarus, the number of counterfeit tobacco products entering Latvia has begun to increase.
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