Latgale Businessman with 37,000 Cigarettes Proves He Too Has Dreams
Police in Preiļi district catch a man with 37,360 cigarettes and 116 liters of moonshine, proving that entrepreneurship in Latgale is just as creative as Riga's traffic planning.
The entrepreneurial spirit of Latgale once again proves its invincibility. In Preiļi district, police detained a man born in 1970, whose cigarette collection of 37,360 specimens would be enviable even to Riga's finest tobacco store chains. Both with Belarusian excise stamps and without them — a truly international assortment.
The man, as police indicate, was selling these cigarettes in the territories of Preiļi and Augšdaugava districts, proving that even small towns can have large-scale commerce. This is as impressive as a walk through Jūrmala park, where among the ancient trees reigns the same silence as in this businessman's dealings — only without Riga's noise and excise stamp problems.
Right there in Daugavpils, a colleague with 10,780 cigarettes and a woman with 116.5 liters of moonshine and five liters of samogon prove that in Latgale neither the spirit of innovation nor the traditional skill of alcohol production is lost. As the locals say: "In Riga they pay taxes, we only pay with freedom."
All three entrepreneurs are now enjoying state care in the form of criminal proceedings, which is much more personal attention than they would ever receive from Riga's business incubators. Latgale entrepreneurship — always with heart, always without excise stamps.
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