{"id":539564,"date":"2026-05-05T21:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539564"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:39:42","slug":"belarusian-detained-in-poland-with-counterfeit-cigarette-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-detained-in-poland-with-counterfeit-cigarette-packaging","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Detained in Poland With Counterfeit Cigarette Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polish tax service officers detained two vehicles transporting counterfeit accessories for cigarette production. They were stopped upon entry from Lithuania at the Polish-Lithuanian border, the tax and customs chamber in Bia\u0142ystok reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the vehicles was driven by a 49-year-old Belarusian citizen. In the trailer, officers found 2 million cardboard cigarette packs and nearly 500 rolls of cork tipping paper for filters bearing the trademark of a well-known tobacco brand.<\/p>\n

In the second vehicle, driven by a 37-year-old Romanian citizen, officers discovered 3.6 million counterfeit cardboard cigarette packs.<\/p>\n

The total value of the illegal goods is estimated at more than 1 million zlotys ($275,000). The goods were seized and placed in storage. The truck drivers were questioned.<\/p>\n

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Polish tax service officers detained two vehicles transporting counterfeit accessories for cigarette production. They were stopped upon entry from Lithuania at the Polish-Lithuanian border, the tax and customs chamber in Bia\u0142ystok reports. One of the vehicles was driven by a 49-year-old Belarusian citizen. In the trailer, officers found 2 million cardboard cigarette packs and nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":539563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fae231a6002.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Detained in Poland With Counterfeit Cigarette Packaging"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-539564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539564","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=539564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}