Cheap cigarettes enter Lithuania

vilnius - Tobacco smugglers have discovered an original method to get their true Lithuania. They tie the good packed slippers of cigarettes in Belarus into the Neris River under ice floes. These will drive automatically in the Baltic neighboring state when the weather goes well. Customers can easily recover the loot thanks to a guided GPS tracker.

The smuggling route was opened two weeks ago when the ice broke in the river. Lithuanian Customs fished a thousand parcels from the cold water last week and found 1500 again on Friday. 'Cigarettes under the drift ice we had not seen before', according to a customs spokesman. 'Smugglers would like to use this piece of the stream anyway. The imagination of those people knows no bounds. '

According to the spokesman, the intercepted contraband has a value of approximately 8000 euros. In Lithuania, cigarettes are about four times as expensive as in Belarus. Out of every six that were raised in the country in 2016, according to a study by KPMG one was illegally imported.