Smuggled Cigarettes Worth $77,000 Seized in Poland

Reform.news Editorial Team · 15 October 2026, 15:01

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Polish customs officers intercepted a shipment of smuggled cigarettes brought by train from Belarus. The smugglers threw the cigarettes out of a railway carriage after crossing the border.

Polish customs officers were monitoring a freight train arriving from Belarus. Near the town of Wólka Dobryńska, close to the border, two men began throwing black-plastic-wrapped packages out of an open railway carriage.

The men were detained. Both turned out to be local residents. Officers seized 13,800 packs of cigarettes worth approximately 300,000 zlotys ($77,000), the Customs and Tax Office in Biała Podlaska, Lublin Region, reports.