Border guards on Thursday pulled a raft with smuggled cigarettes from the Daugava River near the Latvian-Belarusian border, the State Border Guard Service said.
The Border Guard helicopter crew spotted a rectangular object floating in the Daugava River while flying along the border.
While verifying the information and surveying the border along the river with a motorboat, border guards from the Piedruja Border Guard Unit spotted a raft. On inspection, the border guards found that the raft consisted of four bundles tied together in black polyethylene film. They contained 60,000 cigarettes – 30,000 ‘NZ Gold’ and 30,000 ‘Queen super slim’ with Belarusian excise stamps.
The cigarettes were handed over to State Police officials, who opened criminal proceedings for an economic offence.
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