Border patrol dog Andy intercepted cigarette smuggling

On Wednesday evening, the officers of the Kabelii border checkpoint of the Varėna border team in the village of Daržinėliai, Varėna district, 300 meters from the state border with Belarus, noticed and detained a 33-year-old man from Salt with seven stretchers covered with black polyethylene film.

Suspecting that this man may have hidden some of the bundles in the forest, the border guards called the canine officer of the checkpoint with the service dog Endy.

One of the officers of the VSAT with the visiting dog handler and his dog, a three-year-old German shepherd, began to inspect the area. Ten minutes later, the dog found the trail and found eight more identical, oblong bundles covered with black polyethylene film hidden about 300 meters away. Druskininkietis admitted that the found bundles belonged to him.

It also turned out that this man entered the border section during the emergency without having a permit issued by the VSAT.

The border guards took the arrested man from Dlaskin with the bundles to the Kabalei border checkpoint. A total of 1,500 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes with Belarusian labels were found in fifteen bundles. The value of these smokers is 6,585 euros.

Due to the repeated transportation of excise goods in violation of the established procedure, the person from Druskininka faces a fine of about 6,000 euros. Another fine, from 90 to 170 euros, awaits this man for repeated violation of the legal acts regulating the border legal regime.

After questioning the smuggler and handing him a summons to come to the Kabalei border checkpoint in a couple of weeks, when his administrative cases will be examined there, the border guards released him.