{"id":537148,"date":"2026-04-27T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537148"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:40:52","slug":"raft-with-belarusian-cigarettes-floats-into-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/raft-with-belarusian-cigarettes-floats-into-latvia","title":{"rendered":"Raft With Belarusian Cigarettes Floats Into Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, April 26, Latvian border guards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs.gov.lv\/lv\/jaunums\/robezsargi-no-daugavas-iznem-80-000-kontrabandas-cigaresu\">recovered<\/a> a raft carrying cigarettes from the Daugava River that had drifted from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>A border patrol spotted a suspicious object in the river near the village of Piedruja. After approaching it by boat, officers found it consisted of eight packages of cigarettes tied together.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 50,000 NZ Gold cigarettes and 30,000 Queen Superslim cigarettes were handed over to the police. A criminal case has been opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, April 26, Latvian border guards recovered a raft carrying cigarettes from the Daugava River that had drifted from Belarus. A border patrol spotted a suspicious object in the river near the village of Piedruja. After approaching it by boat, officers found it consisted of eight packages of cigarettes tied together. A total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f0648876932.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Raft With Belarusian Cigarettes Floats Into Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247,143171],"class_list":["post-537148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537148","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}