On Monday evening, the border guards of the Švenčionys firewall of the SBGS Vilnius border team at the village of Vigadka in the Švenčionys district captured a person on the Belarusian side with video surveillance cameras. He threw rectangular bundles into the territory of Lithuania through a fence separating the two states.
Information about this was immediately passed on to the nearest former patrols, reports the SBGS.
Going to the scene SBGS officials, assisted by a cynologist with a service dog, spotted three people with bearers leaving the forest almost half a kilometer from the border with Belarus.
The trio, having left the border guards, threw a load and tried to run, but after the first warnings of the SBGS officers, they changed their minds and gave up.
It turned out that the detainees are 23, 24 and 29-year-old residents of Švenčionys district. Border guards are already known to these individuals.
The men carried 999 packets of Fest cigarettes marked with Belarusian excise marks in their bags.
The people of Švenčionys did not have the right to be in the state border protection zone and border zone. The two men also did not have the required identity documents. After inspecting the site, SBGS officials did not find any more suspicious persons or objects.
Residents of Švenčionys district face fines of 3,500 to 6,000 for smuggling, and 5,000 to 6,000 euros for repeated transportation of excisable goods in violation of the established procedure.
The troika will also have to take administrative responsibility for the absence of identity documents at the border section. After the polls, the Saints run. They were served with summonses to come to the Švenčionys border guard to hear administrative cases. This unit of the SBGS also stores smuggled illegally.
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