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European Union authorities say that they have arrested nine people in Lithuania for attempting to smuggle tens of millions of cigarettes to several countries.
Law enforcement from Poland, Germany, and Lithuania seized 70 million cigarettes in the sting operation, “preventing losses of 6 million euros (US$8.6 million) to the European taxpayer,” the EU’s Anti-Fraud Office said Monday.
The nine suspects were allegedly smuggling the contraband from Ukraine and Russia to other European countries. They are now being detained for three months and will await trial in Lithuania.
The Anti-Fraud Office said that cigarette smuggling costs European taxpayers 10 billion euros (US$14.4 billion) a year
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