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Revenue Service seizes record: EUR 400,000 worth of hashish on Latvian-Russian border
Alla Petrova, BC, Riga, 09.09.2011.
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Print versionOn September 2, the State Revenue Service officers seized EUR 400,000 (LVL 280,000) worth of hashish on the Latvian-Russian border. The record-large amount of hashish, 80 kilograms, was found in a car at the Grebneva border crossing.
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The State Revenue Service's Public Relations Department informed LETA that the drugs were found in an "Audi" automobile, driven by Russian citizen Mikhail B., born in 1977.
The car had a hidden compartment
behind its back seat with 152 packages of hashish.
The State Revenue Service's Customs Administration has launched a criminal
process on transport of illegal substances across the Latvian border.
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