From: The Baltic Course
Four facilities used for illegal raw tobacco processing and cigarette production have been uncovered in Lithuania in a year, informs LETA/BNS/Lietuvos Zinios.
“The situation is threatening. Lithuania is probably the only country in the region that does not treat raw tobacco as an excise good, and, therefore, large quantities of unprocessed tobacco are imported into our country,” Mantas Kausilas, director of the Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service (CCS), told.
“We suspect that processed raw tobacco is subsequently supplied to underground tobacco factories throughout Europe,” he said.
