LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN BORDER GUARDS UNEARTH A 3KM PIPELINE USED FOR SMUGGLING LIQUOR FROM NEIGHPOURING BELARUS
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584904
LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN BORDER GUARDS UNEARTH A 3KM PIPELINE USED FOR SMUGGLING LIQUOR FROM NEIGHPOURING BELARUS
- Title: LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN BORDER GUARDS UNEARTH A 3KM PIPELINE USED FOR SMUGGLING LIQUOR FROM NEIGHPOURING BELARUS
- Date: 10th December 2004
- Summary: (EUROPE) EISISKES, LITHUANIA (DECEMBER 10, 2004), (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF BORDER GUARD PULLING OUT TUBE FROM WATER (2 SHOTS) 0.07 2. GROUP OF BORDER GUARDS PULLING OUT TUBE FROM GROUND 0.10 3. VARIOUS OF BORDER GUARD PULLING TUBE OUT FROM UNDER ROAD (2 SHOTS) 0.23 4. BORDER GUARD BEGINS TO PULL OUT TUBE FROM FIELD 0.30 5. CU: PLASTIC TUBE IN HAND (2 SHOTS) 0.48 6. CU: BORDER GURAD HOLDING METAL GROUND PEGS 0.52 7. BORDER GUARD WRAPPING TUBE 0.58 8. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER OF LITHUANIA'S BORDER GUARD DEPARTMENT, CAPTAIN GIEDRIUS MISUTIS: "Close to the Belarus border our officers discovered a plastic tube pumping spirits, through rivers, roads and fields, into the Lithuanian side for over a kilometre." 1.10 9. CU: BORDER SIGN SAYING "REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA". 1.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th December 2004 12:00
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- Location: EISISKES, LITHUANIA
- Country: Lithuania
- Reuters ID: LVAA5ANPV55L5P9MJ6M9XI92NUWQ
- Story Text: Lithuania unearths liquor pipeline from Belarus.
Lithuanian border guards have unearthed a
three-kilometre (2-mile) pipeline for smuggling in
moonshine liquor from neighbouring Belarus, the guards said
on Friday (December 10).
The thin plastic pipeline, buried a few centimetres
underground, ran under several roads, along a riverbed
and ended next to the home of a Lithuanian citizen.
There was no news of any arrests.
It was the fourth such pipeline discovered in the last
two years but by far the longest. Moonshine vodka
from Belarus is sold on the black market in Lithuania,
undercutting prices of legitimate alcohol that have risen
sharply since the Baltic nation joined the European Union
in May.
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