A 25-year-old Russian resident in Lithuania, is to be arraigned in court today and accused of importing drugs, the police said.

He was arrested by Customs officers and the police at the airport on Monday evening when drugs were found in his possession after a flight from Brussels.

2.5kg of heroin were found in a false bottom of his suitcase.

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