Lithuanian Customs Department

Lithuanian customs officers on Friday detained a shipment of ready-to-use equipment for the oil and gas industry, meant for Russia, the Customs Department said.

An increasing number of dogs and cats arriving in Lithuania for shows, treatment, tourism or other purposes from third countries are illegally sold in the European Union, according to the Lithuanian Customs.

The government has taken aim at the informal economy, just as many prior to it has. This time, the construction sector, meat produce trade, healthcare institutions and minor traders are in its sights, lrt.lt writes.

Arūnas Adomėnas, director general of Lithuania's Customs Department, has stepped down.

More than half a ton of cocaine, smuggled from South America, with an estimated street value of nearly 49 million euros were destroyed in a furnace on Tuesday, the Lithuanian Customs said.

The Lithuanian Customs seized almost 64 million illegal cigarettes with a total estimated value of 9.5 million euros in the first half of this year, making up the bulk of all smuggled goods detained during the period.

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

Lithuanian customs officers found almost €400,000 worth of psychotropic tablets hidden in a car they stopped at the border with Latvia last weekend, the Customs Criminal Service said on Thursday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian customs officers discovered old silver coins hidden in a book of horror stories, the Customs Department said on Thursday.

Four out of five packets of smuggled cigarettes in Lithuania come from Belarus, according to a survey of used packets conducted at the end of last year by Nielsen.

Lithuanian customs officers seized smuggled items worth over €30 million last year, according to preliminary data.

Lithuanian Customs officers chose an unconventional but tongue-in-cheek solution for decorating the windows of the Customs Department this holiday season. The small, ornamental Christmas town decorating their windows on Gediminas Avenue in Vilnius was made of cardboard boxes that had contained illeg...

Lithuanian customs are stepping up the control on the border with Latvia in response to the growing flows of cigarette smuggling.

With the flow of illegal goods from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad declining, the Lithuanian Customs this year plan to focus more on the border with Belarus.

Antanas Sipavičius, director general of the Lithuanian Customs Department, has been transferred to the western port of Klaipėda after his 5-year term ended on 31 December, the department said.

With Russia keeping thorough checks on Lithuanian vehicles in place for more than two weeks now, most Lithuanian truckers prefer to drive to Russia through Belarus rather than via Latvia, the president of the national haulers' association Linava said on Monday.

The Lithuanian government will require that all cargo handlers provide preliminary information about cargo carried by rail to the territory of the Customs Union, the Customs Department said.

Lithuanian customs officers seized over 5,000 items in the first half of this year, suspected of having been produced in violation of intellectual rights.