Investigators conducted more than 80 searches, seizing cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps, firearms and luxury cars, the Lithuanian general prosecutor’s office said.
Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus that violated the Baltic country’s airspace in rec… [1977 chars]
Source: Los Angeles Times | Published: 2025-12-16T17:10:41Z
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