{"id":554625,"date":"2026-06-26T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=554625"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:25:43","slug":"belarusian-fined-at-polish-border-for-cigarette-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-fined-at-polish-border-for-cigarette-smuggling","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Fined at Polish Border for Cigarette Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish customs officers found smuggled cigarettes in the car of a Belarusian citizen at the Bobrowniki border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 500 packs of cigarettes were hidden inside the vehicle&#8217;s seat. The shipment was valued at more than 10,000 zlotys ($2,700), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.pl\/web\/ias-bialystok\/kontrabanda-na-przejsciu-granicznym-w-bobrownikach-papierosy-w-fotelach-auta\">according to<\/a> the Tax Administration Chamber in Bia\u0142ystok.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Belarusian driver admitted to the smuggling offense. He was fined 10,000 zlotys. The cigarettes were confiscated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_554578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554578\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-554578\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279-1200x797.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29780c0e-6fa5-4dea-a9a5-6dac3414f279-602x400.jpeg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-554578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: gov.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_554577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554577\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-554577\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4-1200x797.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/29f0f18b-71d2-4fd5-94a6-b5808471eee4-602x400.jpeg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-554577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: gov.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish customs officers found smuggled cigarettes in the car of a Belarusian citizen at the Bobrowniki border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border. A total of 500 packs of cigarettes were hidden inside the vehicle&#8217;s seat. The shipment was valued at more than 10,000 zlotys ($2,700), according to the Tax Administration Chamber in Bia\u0142ystok. The 27-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":554624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3e8beb89c1e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Fined at Polish Border for Cigarette Smuggling"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247,143248],"class_list":["post-554625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554625","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=554625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}