Lithuania detains 27 in smuggling probe, including police officers, border guards
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Smuggling operations are said to threaten national, economic and security interests, as well as civil aviation and public safety.
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Officers from the Prosecutor General's Office and the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau carried out a large-scale operation, during which as many as 27 persons were detained for their involvement in organizing cigarette smuggling using weather balloons. Among those detained were 13 police and State Border Guard Service (SBS) officers and one chief specialist from the municipal utility department. The footage filmed by the officers shows officers…
Lithuanian law enforcement officers have smashed two large smuggling groups that were transporting cigarettes across the border in balloons containing dozens of criminals. The country's politicians explained that the smuggling was organized by the Lukashenko regime in order to harm Vilnius Airport and Lithuania. Almost half of the suspects detained this week were Lithuanian officers who had helped the smugglers. Three border guards and ten polic…
In Lithuania, 13 members of the security forces were detained in a case involving the smuggling of cigarettes with meteorological balloons, the Deputy Commissioner-General of Police, Marius Draudvil, reports LRT.
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