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Latvia. 2000 ‘Section 190.’ The Criminal Law (Latvia); Section 190. Riga: Latvia. 18 May

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Section 190. Smuggling

(1) For a person who commits the moving of goods or other valuable property across the customs border of the Republic of Latvia, by avoiding customs control or concealing goods or other valuable property from such control, by using false customs or other documents, or in any other unlawful way (smuggling), if such is committed on a large scale, the applicable sentence is deprivation of liberty for a term not exceeding five years, or a fine not exceeding two hundred times the minimum monthly wage, with or without confiscation of property.

(2) For a person who commits the same acts, where committed in a group of persons pursuant to prior agreement, the applicable sentence is deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than five and not exceeding ten years, with or without confiscation of property.

(3) For a person who commits smuggling, where committed in an organised group, or who commits smuggling of powerfully acting, poisonous or radioactive substances, goods or other valuable property of strategic significance, explosive substances, firearms, ammunition, gas pistols (revolvers) or cartridges for such, or gas cylinders filled with noxious substances, or special devices containing toxic or powerfully acting substances, the applicable sentence is deprivation of liberty for a term of not less than eight and not exceeding fifteen years, with confiscation of property.

ID: Q14842

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