Another drone carrying contraband cigarettes entered Lithuania from Belarus, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service reported. Lithuanian border guards spotted the…
Seven people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of smuggling Belarusian cigarettes through Lithuania into Poland in 2020–2021. Those…
Poland’s Central Bureau of Investigation of the Police has reported the dismantling of another smuggling group involved in transporting cigarettes…
Lithuanian border guards discovered 30 packages of cigarettes worth €16,530 on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border. On June 7, border guards from…
On June 6, Latvian border guards discovered a weather balloon in Augšdaugava Municipality. Attached to the balloon was a package…
Polish authorities have detained a 36-year-old Belarusian man and a 22-year-old Polish citizen on suspicion of cigarette smuggling. The Belarusian…
Lithuanian police have identified more than a dozen groups involved in smuggling cigarettes from Belarus. Some of them have already…
A Lithuanian citizen has been fined heavily for smuggling Belarusian cigarettes using a weather balloon. He was also ordered to…
Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service has detained a shipment of contraband cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps and several suspects, including…
Lithuanian police have dismantled an organised scheme for smuggling cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps in the Šalčininkai District. The cigarettes…
Poland’s Border Guard, together with the National Revenue Administration, has dismantled a gang involved in smuggling cigarettes from Belarus. Seven…
Another raft carrying cigarettes has floated from Belarus into Lithuania. It was recovered from the Neris River in Švenčionys District,…
A major operation targeting cigarette smugglers has been carried out in Lithuania. Lithuanian media reported investigative actions earlier this week.…
Lithuanian border guards discovered another weather balloon carrying cigarettes that had arrived from Belarus. On May 13, border guards on…
Lithuanian police on May 12-13 conducted an operation targeting individuals involved in cigarette smuggling from Belarus using weather balloons. On…
A weather balloon landed in Kaunas on the night of 12-13 May. Boxes containing 9,000 packs of Belarusian cigarettes were…
Russian customs officials on the Russian-Latvian border uncovered a shipment of smuggled Belarusian cigarettes. A total of 12,500 packs were…
Lithuanian border guards intercepted another drone carrying cigarettes that had crossed from Belarus. The drone was spotted in the Šalčininkai…
The Panevėžys Regional Court has found six residents of Vilnius, Trakai, Visaginas, and Rokiškis guilty of smuggling cigarettes from Belarus…
On the evening of May 1, Lithuanian border guards intercepted two drones carrying cigarettes that had flown in from Belarus,…
A weather balloon with boxes attached to it was found in the settlement of Iwkowa in Poland’s Lesser Poland Voivodeship.…
A Belarusian citizen has been sentenced in Poland to one year and two months in prison in a cigarette smuggling…
On Sunday, April 26, Latvian border guards recovered a raft carrying cigarettes from the Daugava River that had drifted from…
The Border Guard in Biała Podlaska is investigating a criminal case involving an organised crime group that smuggled cigarettes using…
Another drone that arrived from Belarus has been found near the Lithuanian border, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service reported.…
Polish border guards detained three people over the weekend who had arrived in the border zone to collect a shipment…
Polish customs officers discovered contraband in six cars entering Poland from Belarus. In all cases, the drivers were Belarusian citizens.…
On April 16, Latvian border guards pulled two tractor tires filled with Belarusian cigarettes from the Daugava River. A border…
Lithuanian border guards detained 1,300 packs of Belarusian cigarettes and a local resident who received the goods at the border.…
A trial is underway at the District Court in Białystok involving nine defendants accused of large-scale cigarette smuggling and corruption.…
A Belarusian hid cigarettes so securely inside his car that Lithuanian customs officers had to call firefighters for help dismantling…
Police in Bialystok detained a 24-year-old Polish citizen and a 36-year-old Belarusian citizen. They are accused of smuggling cigarettes from…
A large shipment of contraband cigarettes from Belarus has been seized in Poland, the Polish Border Guard said. A van…
On the night of March 24–25, Lithuanian border guards intercepted a drone that had entered from Belarus in the Šalčininkai…
A weather balloon carrying cigarettes landed overnight Thursday in the yard of a resident in the town of Žiežmariai in…
Polish customs officers discovered Belarusian cigarettes in a freight train in Terespol. They had been hidden in wagons carrying pellets,…
In Poland, two people have been detained for transporting cigarettes smuggled from Belarus using weather balloons. Polish border guards from…
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence supports the European Commission’s action plan to counter drone-related threats, LRT…
On Tuesday, seven airborne shipments of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted in Lithuania. All of them were delivered from Belarus using…
Polish customs officers intercepted Belarusian cigarettes that were being smuggled on a freight train, the Tax and Customs Chamber in…