{"id":554915,"date":"2026-06-28T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=554915"},"modified":"2026-06-28T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:27:44","slug":"brest-customs-seizes-more-than-72-000-from-passenger-arriving-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/brest-customs-seizes-more-than-72-000-from-passenger-arriving-from-france","title":{"rendered":"Brest Customs Seizes More Than $72,000 From Passenger Arriving From France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Brest Customs has opened a criminal case against a passenger travelling in a Peugeot car who arrived from France and allegedly attempted to illegally bring more than $72,000 in cash, or the equivalent amount, into Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The woman told a customs inspector that she was carrying only personal belongings and about $1,500 in cash. The actual amount was discovered during a subsequent inspection of her belongings.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened under Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code. The offence carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison. The cash has been seized pending a court decision, the Belarusian Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/13338\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_554885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554885\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-554885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/or-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-554885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brest Customs has opened a criminal case against a passenger travelling in a Peugeot car who arrived from France and allegedly attempted to illegally bring more than $72,000 in cash, or the equivalent amount, into Belarus. The woman told a customs inspector that she was carrying only personal belongings and about $1,500 in cash. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":554914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a40e9141369c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Brest Customs Seizes More Than $72,000 From Passenger Arriving From France"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554915","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=554915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}