{"id":563117,"date":"2026-07-28T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563117"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:34:15","slug":"lithuanian-border-guards-recover-snowflake-shaped-cigarette-raft-from-the-neris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-border-guards-recover-snowflake-shaped-cigarette-raft-from-the-neris","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Border Guards Recover Snowflake-Shaped Cigarette Raft From the Neris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards recovered a &#8220;snowflake&#8221; from the Neris River (known as the Viliya in Belarus) in the middle of summer. That was the shape of a raft used by cigarette smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Border Guard Service, the raft carried 2,090 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania. The shipment is estimated to be worth \u20ac11,400.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation has been launched. It is worth noting that such cigarette rafts are more commonly recovered in winter, when smugglers disguise them as ice floes.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian officers previously recovered a similar raft from the Neris. Two months ago, it was carrying 2,250 packs of cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards recovered a &#8220;snowflake&#8221; from the Neris River (known as the Viliya in Belarus) in the middle of summer. That was the shape of a raft used by cigarette smugglers. According to the State Border Guard Service, the raft carried 2,090 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania. The shipment is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a68779b26a65.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Border Guards Recover Snowflake-Shaped Cigarette Raft From the Neris"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563117","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=563117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}