Lithuanian driver caught with 73 kg hashish at Kamenny Log
Belarusian customs stopped a Lithuanian driver in a 1976 Chevrolet Corvette at the Kamenny Log checkpoint and found 73 kg of hashish hidden behind a false wall. The Grodno Regional Customs opened a cross-border smuggling case carrying up to ten years in prison.
Belarusian customs officers intercepted a Lithuanian driver in a 1976 Chevrolet
Corvette on the Belarusian side of the Kamenny Log-Miadininkai checkpoint on the
Belarus-Lithuania border.[1]The driver was crossing the Belarusian-Lithuanian
border and used the red corridor to file a declaration for temporary import of
his car into the EAEU.[1]He declared no other goods requiring written
declaration.[1]His behaviour aroused the customs officers’ suspicion.[1]Customs sent the vehicle for examination using an inspection-scanning complex.[1]
The intercepted load weighed 73 kg of hashish.[1]A scan and follow-up search
found 134 briquettes of pressed dark-brown substance hidden in a structural
cavity in the rear of the car, closed off by a specially fitted false wall.[1]The substance was seized and sent for expert examination to the Lida
interdistrict department of the State Committee of Forensic Examinations for the
Grodno region.[1]The expert conclusion confirmed that the substance was the
dangerous narcotic drug hashish.[1]
The Grodno Regional Customs opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 328-1
of the Belarusian Criminal Code on illegal movement of narcotic drugs across the
border.[1]The article carries a penalty of up to ten years of imprisonment, a
possible punishment rather than a sentence already imposed.[1]
Photos and video
Customs photo published with the report on the 73 kg hashish seizure at Kamenny Log. Photo: State Customs Committee of BelarusPhoto details
The customs statement gives no separate date for the interception; 20 January 2023 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The driver's name and age were not published.
No court outcome was reported beyond the opened criminal case.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Russian and English.
The customs page carries eight photos without captions; only one representative photo is linked because individual contents cannot be established from the text.
The statement's combined figure of about 664 kg of drugs, psychotropics and potent substances seized in the previous year is not a cannabis amount and is excluded from the figures.
The statement does not explicitly say the driver was detained or arrested, so no arrested figure is recorded.
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