{"id":524958,"date":"2026-03-12T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524958"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:25:42","slug":"belarusian-man-tries-to-leave-poland-in-bmw-with-altered-vin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-tries-to-leave-poland-in-bmw-with-altered-vin","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man Tries To Leave Poland In BMW With Altered VIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish border guards detained a 29-year-old Belarusian citizen who attempted to cross the border in a car with an altered VIN code.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian was leaving Poland through the Terespol border crossing in a 2013 BMW. During the inspection, border guards noticed that the vehicle\u2019s VIN number had been modified, the Polish Border Guard service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadbuzanski.strazgraniczna.pl\/nos\/aktualnosci\/70719,BMW-z-falszywym-numerem-VIN-odzyskane-przez-Straz-Graniczna-w-Terespolu.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The car, valued at 80,000 zlotys (about $21,700), was seized and handed over to the police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_524928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-524928\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-524928\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12-341921-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-524928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: nadbuzanski.strazgraniczna.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish border guards detained a 29-year-old Belarusian citizen who attempted to cross the border in a car with an altered VIN code. The Belarusian was leaving Poland through the Terespol border crossing in a 2013 BMW. During the inspection, border guards noticed that the vehicle\u2019s VIN number had been modified, the Polish Border Guard service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b2a2bc0bb85.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man Tries To Leave Poland In BMW With Altered VIN"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}