Customs Criminal Service

The volumes of smuggled cigarettes detained in Lithuania almost tripled in the first quarter of this year, from the same period last year, the country's Customs Criminal Service said on Friday.

A shipment of 320 kilos of drugs has been seized during an international operation in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas and Latvia, Lithuania's Customs Criminal Service reported on Wednesday.

Lithuanian customs officers detained a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth almost 2 million euros in Kybartai on Thursday morning, the Customs Criminal Service said.

The volumes of contraband cigarettes detained by Lithuanian customs officers have tripled this year, compared to the same period last year, reaching the value of 11 million euros, the Customs Criminal Service said.

Lithuanian customs officers refused to allow a rocket launch system from Belarus to enter the country earlier this week.

Lithuanian customs officers have detained a Belarusian citizen who tried to bring contraband goods into the country in a car with diplomatic car plates.

As part of an investigation into a suspected illegal scheme, a shipment of over half a million packs of cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been detained in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda, the Customs Criminal Service (CCS) said.

Four facilities used for illegal raw tobacco processing and cigarette production have been uncovered in Lithuania in a year, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service (CCS) suspects that shadow raw tobacco processing plants are being set up in the country to supply illegal tobacco to factories across Europe.

Lithuanian customs officers have found around 400 boxes with Belarusian-made contraband cigarettes, worth around 620,000 euros, hidden in a shipment of wood pellets on a train from the neighboring country,

Lithuanian customs officers have seized 20,000 packs of contraband cigarettes hidden in an expanded clay aggregate shipment on a train from Belarus.

Lithuanian Customs criminalists have found 300,000 packs of contraband cigarettes on a train this week.

Lithuanian customs officials last weekend seized 500,000 packs of contraband cigarettes at the border with Belarus, the Customs Criminal Service said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian customs officers have checked a shipment of computers, destined for the UK in Vilnius, and found them filled with contraband cigarettes.

Lithuanian customs officials have seized almost 80 kilograms of hashish hidden in a car that was pulled over for a check at the border with Poland, the Customs Criminal Service said on Wednesday.

A suspected leader of an international drug trafficking group was detained in Lithuania last week, the Customs Criminal Service said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian customs officers have seized a shipment of 75 kilograms of hashish in the eastern town of Zarasai, the Customs Criminal Service said.

A shipment of more than 600 kg of cocaine was busted in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda, one of the biggest cases of drugs smuggling in Lithuania's history, Klaipėda territorial customs said on Wednesday.

Another huge haul of smuggled cigarettes, worth 1.3 million euros, has been seized in Lithuania, the customs service said on Tuesday.

A case involving an international drug smuggling ring has been recently sent to a Lithuanian court, the Lithuanian Customs said on Thursday.