drugs

The largest drug production facility ever discovered by Latvian law enforcement officers was busted last week in the Aluksne region and finished products worth at least EUR 400 million were uncovered there, the Latvian State Police informed the media on Thursday, LETA reports.

A shipment of 320 kilos of drugs has been seized during an international operation in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas and Latvia, Lithuania's Customs Criminal Service reported on Wednesday.

About 300,000 packs of ranitidine-containing drugs have been withdrawn from the Lithuanian market, the head of the State Medicines Control Agency said on Tuesday.

A Vilnius court on Friday started hearing a case of several oreigners who produced drugs in Latvia and sold them in Lithuania.

A case involving an international drug smuggling ring has been recently sent to a Lithuanian court, the Lithuanian Customs said on Thursday.

Lithuanian customs officials have detained a truck en route from Spain, carrying 676 kg of hashish, the Customs Criminal Service said, noting this was the largest drugs shipment busted in the country this year.

James Mulvey, a suspected British drugs trafficker who was detained in an international operation in Kaunas on Tuesday, owned real property and several companies in Lithuania, the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) said.

Lithuanian customs officers found almost €400,000 worth of psychotropic tablets hidden in a car they stopped at the border with Latvia last weekend, the Customs Criminal Service said on Thursday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A Vilnius court on Friday ruled to extradite a Belgian citizen to the US to face charges of drugs trafficking.

The Lithuanian police have seized 320 kilograms of hashish with a street value of up to €4 million after carrying out an operation in Klaipėda.

Lithuanian and Norwegian officers have busted an international drug ring operating in both countries.

Following an operation that lasted several years, officers from Kaunas County Police have detained a shipment of 100kg of cocaine that was shipped to Lithuania with coal from Colombia. Nine people were detained, the police said on Friday.

Having received his release papers from the prison’s management, on an average day of the Baltic autumn Rimantas Muka (31) moved through the gates of Alytus prison in Lithuania. He bought a kebab and a soda at a nearby kiosk. He just stood there and ate, waiting. Muka thought that the autumn morning...

Lithuanian customs officers on Friday detained a huge shipment of smuggling drugs in the port city of Klaipėda – three sacks containing a total of 116 kg of cocaine were discovered in a sea container.