{"id":541754,"date":"2026-05-13T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541754"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:39:28","slug":"polish-border-guards-seize-contraband-belarusian-cigarettes-in-bialystok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-border-guards-seize-contraband-belarusian-cigarettes-in-bialystok","title":{"rendered":"Polish Border Guards Seize Contraband Belarusian Cigarettes in Bia\u0142ystok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish border guards seized a shipment of contraband Belarusian cigarettes in Bia\u0142ystok, believed to have been delivered by air from Belarusian territory. A Lithuanian citizen and a Polish woman of Belarusian origin were detained.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Podlasie Border Guard Department, during operations in one of the city\u2019s residential districts, border guards noticed vehicles that had previously been linked to smuggling. Officers seized 217,000 cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps from the cars, with an estimated value of around 224,000 zlotys.<\/p>\n<p>During a search at the suspects\u2019 place of residence, investigators found additional evidence of involvement in smuggling and seized 30,000 zlotys.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Preliminary findings indicate that the seized goods were smuggled using unmanned aerial vehicles, and that the detained woman likely played a leading role in organising this criminal activity&#8221;<\/em>, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees have been charged with smuggling and other offences. They have been placed in custody for three months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_541744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-541744\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-541744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346669.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346669-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346669-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346669-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-541744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_541743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-541743\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-541743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346670.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346670-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346670-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15-346670-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-541743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish border guards seized a shipment of contraband Belarusian cigarettes in Bia\u0142ystok, believed to have been delivered by air from Belarusian territory. A Lithuanian citizen and a Polish woman of Belarusian origin were detained. According to the Podlasie Border Guard Department, during operations in one of the city\u2019s residential districts, border guards noticed vehicles that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":541753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0446d527f77.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Border Guards Seize Contraband Belarusian Cigarettes in Bia\u0142ystok"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541754","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=541754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}