{"id":563204,"date":"2026-07-28T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563204"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:18:16","slug":"belarusian-loses-car-in-poland-over-cigarette-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-loses-car-in-poland-over-cigarette-smuggling","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Loses Car in Poland Over Cigarette Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian citizen\u2019s car was inspected on a highway near the Polish-Lithuanian border, where customs officers found smuggled cigarettes hidden in a concealed compartment.<\/p>\n<p>Polish customs officers stopped an Opel driven by a 44-year-old Belarusian man. The vehicle was scanned, revealing 6,300 packs of cigarettes concealed in a false floor. The smuggled goods are estimated to be worth 125,000 zlotys ($32,900).<\/p>\n<p>Criminal proceedings have been launched against the man. The cigarettes and the vehicle have been seized, the Tax Administration Chamber in Bia\u0142ystok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.pl\/web\/ias-bialystok\/nielegalne-papierosy-przejete-przez-podlaska-kas\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_563195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563195\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563195\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/222a2b7b-218a-4215-b01e-3c87f0a55df7-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-563195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: gov.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian citizen\u2019s car was inspected on a highway near the Polish-Lithuanian border, where customs officers found smuggled cigarettes hidden in a concealed compartment. Polish customs officers stopped an Opel driven by a 44-year-old Belarusian man. The vehicle was scanned, revealing 6,300 packs of cigarettes concealed in a false floor. The smuggled goods are estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a68ac20860e9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Loses Car in Poland Over Cigarette Smuggling"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247,143248],"class_list":["post-563204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563204","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=563204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}