{"id":560422,"date":"2026-07-17T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=560422"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:52:11","slug":"illegal-cigarettes-found-in-belarusian-man-s-car-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/illegal-cigarettes-found-in-belarusian-man-s-car-in-poland","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Cigarettes Found in Belarusian Man&#8217;s Car in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Border Guard officers and officials from Poland&#8217;s National Revenue Administration discovered illegal cigarettes in a car driven by a 42-year-old Belarusian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was stopped for inspection in the Pi\u0105tnica municipality. Officers found 3,000 packs of cigarettes without Polish excise tax stamps inside the \u0160koda. The cigarettes were valued at approximately 60,000 zlotys.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian citizen now faces penalties for a tax offence. He has also been ordered to return to Belarus and has been banned from entering the Schengen area for five years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_560391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560391\" style=\"width: 903px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-560391 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"903\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352200.jpg 903w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352200-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352200-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15-352200-604x400.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-560391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Guard officers and officials from Poland&#8217;s National Revenue Administration discovered illegal cigarettes in a car driven by a 42-year-old Belarusian citizen. The vehicle was stopped for inspection in the Pi\u0105tnica municipality. Officers found 3,000 packs of cigarettes without Polish excise tax stamps inside the \u0160koda. The cigarettes were valued at approximately 60,000 zlotys. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":560421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5a176ef33c6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Illegal Cigarettes Found in Belarusian Man\u2019s Car in Poland"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560422","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=560422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}