Lithuanian and Polish Smugglers Caught With €33,000 Worth of Belarusian Cigarettes
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Since the beginning of the year, border guards have planted 61 drones.
Lithuanian and Polish Smugglers Caught With €33,000 Worth of Belarusian Cigarettes
Lithuanian authorities detained a Lithuanian and a Polish national after a 20-kilometer chase. One was caught immediately, while a police dog tracked down the second.Their BMW X3 contained 6,000 packs of cigarettes with Belarusian excise...
In the Šalčininkai district, border guards took control and landed a plane carrying illegal cigarettes into Lithuania. This year, the State Border Service officers guarding the state border with Belarus have already intercepted 61 unmanned aerial vehicles - more than last year in the whole of last year.
On Saturday night, officers of the Triboniai border guard of the Varėna border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of the Republic of Lithuania, who were patrolling the border section near the village of Triboniai (Šalčininkai district), heard the sound of a drone flying from the Belarusian side and soon saw a drone with cargo. It was also noticed by another border guard on duty nearby. After immediately using their anti-drone equipment…
The Lithuanian State Border Guard reported that another drone of cigarette smugglers had been intercepted and that the drone had been observed on Saturday in the district of Triboniai; the border guards had used an interception device; the drone had lost control and had fallen; it had been searched, and it had soon been discovered 2 kilometres from the locality.
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