{"id":546429,"date":"2026-05-28T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546429"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:42:46","slug":"belarusian-driver-detained-in-poland-with-contraband-tobacco-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-driver-detained-in-poland-with-contraband-tobacco-cargo","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Driver Detained in Poland With Contraband Tobacco Cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the Silesian Voivodeship, officers from the Customs and Tax Service and the Central Bureau of Investigation of the Police inspected a truck traveling along the A1 motorway. Contraband tobacco was discovered in the cargo compartment, Poland\u2019s National Revenue Administration reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The driver, a 34-year-old Belarusian citizen, presented documents stating that he was transporting tobacco waste from Italy to Lithuania. In the boxes carried in the semi-trailer, customs officers found more than 14.5 tons of smoking tobacco. Its market value is estimated at more than 15 million zlotys ($4.1 million).<\/p>\n

An investigation has been launched. The driver was questioned as a witness.<\/p>\n

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In the Silesian Voivodeship, officers from the Customs and Tax Service and the Central Bureau of Investigation of the Police inspected a truck traveling along the A1 motorway. Contraband tobacco was discovered in the cargo compartment, Poland\u2019s National Revenue Administration reported. The driver, a 34-year-old Belarusian citizen, presented documents stating that he was transporting tobacco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":546428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a1870894ece6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Driver Detained in Poland With Contraband Tobacco Cargo"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-546429","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\/546429","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=546429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}