The volumes of smuggled cigarettes detained in Lithuania almost tripled in the first quarter of this year, from the same period last year, the country's Customs Criminal Service said on Friday.
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204 new points of sale of illegal tobacco emerged in Lithuania, with their number going up by a tenth from a year earlier, the association "Lithuanian Without Shadow" says.
Smuggled cigarettes account for 21.3 percent of Lithuania's tobacco product market, up by two percentage points compared with a year ago, according to the latest empty pack survey by Nielsen.
Lithuanian customs officers detained a shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth almost 2 million euros in Kybartai on Thursday morning, the Customs Criminal Service said.
