The swimmer, who was “decorated” with reeds and last year’s leaves, was brought to Lithuania secretly
The border guards of the Druskininkai firewall blocked two attempts to smuggle smuggled smokers from Belarus. According to preliminary data, illegal cargo was brought to the Lithuanian coast by a swimmer.
One suspicious bundle was discovered on Thursday in the Nemunas, near the village of Gerdašiai in Druskininkai municipality, by officers of the Druskininkai firewall of the SBGS Varėna border team.
The cardboard boxes were tightly wrapped with adhesive tape and black polyethylene film. Attached to the yoke are self-made braces that smugglers use to make it easier to transport a lot.
The bundle is masked with harvested reeds and last year’s leaves. In it, SBGS officials found 1 thousand. pack of Fest cigarettes marked with Belarusian stamps.
Inspecting the river bank and the surrounding area, the border guards found two more bundles of braces, and a swimmer was spotted in the water on the Belarusian side. He soon disappeared from the horizon of SBGS officials in the depths of his country’s territory.
Undoubtedly, it was he who brought smokers out of Belarus into the river, whom the accomplices, having reached the right moment, had to transport and notice in Lithuania as soon as possible.
A total of 3,000 people fell into the hands of border guards. pack of cigarettes “Fest” with Russian stamps.
Border guards of smokers Druskininkai record such attempts periodically.
In the cold season, smugglers choose a method that has been tried once before – to try to disguise the rafts of smokers and make them look like floating ice sexes. They are wrapped in white polyethylene film or medical gauze, covered with frozen snow, ice and dirt, and various building materials are selected to regulate the buoyancy – bricks, concrete blocks, sidewalks, etc.
As the weather warms, the masking of such illegal cargo also changes. They, like the boxes found by Druskininkai border guards on Thursday, are loaded with harvested reeds, other plants and leaves, hidden in more difficult coastal areas.
The border guards of the Pavoverė firewall of the Vilnius border team often prevented a similar violation. The officers of this SBGS unit guard the section of the border with Belarus where the Neris flows into Lithuania from the neighboring state.