Law enforcement authorities from 28 states attended the Interpol conference. According to the police Belarus accounts for 75% of the illegal tobacco sold in Lithuania.
Michael Ellis, head of Interpol Program on Combating Counterfeit Products: Some of the counterfeit products were produced by women from Central Africa enslaved by their own fellow countrymen. They were working at daytime and at night were forced to engage in prostitution.
Alexander Pogossky, senior inspector of criminal police of the Republic of Belarus: The Republic of Belarus took parting a number of international projects against counterfeited products.
Last year the Belarusian police confiscated almost 22 millions of counterfeited cigarettes.













