LTG representative: attempts are made daily to circumvent sanctions and transport sanctioned goods via Lithuania

Edvinas Kerza, business resilience director at Lithuanian Railways Group (LTG), has revealed that on Wednesday night authorities overseeing sanction implementation stopped 32 freight wagons with sanctioned goods from entering Lithuania. According to him, attempts are also made to circumvent sanctions via Latvia, whereas some companies disregard LTG warnings to stop sanction circumvention.

“This night alone it was attempted to transport 25 Lukoil wagons to Kaliningrad Oblast claiming that this was transit freight (&) when in fact it was meant for export. We turned them around,” Kerza told reporters Wednesday.