{"id":568127,"date":"2026-08-14T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568127"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:57:53","slug":"bus-driver-helped-ukrainian-citizen-smuggle-large-sum-of-money-criminal-case-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/bus-driver-helped-ukrainian-citizen-smuggle-large-sum-of-money-criminal-case-opened","title":{"rendered":"Bus Driver Helped Ukrainian Citizen Smuggle Large Sum Of Money. Criminal Case Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Brest customs officers stopped an attempt to bring a large sum of money into Belarus without declaring it. A criminal case has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Customs Committee, while processing an international scheduled bus at the Brest border checkpoint, the driver declared a small amount of personal cash. However, customs officers found $32,000 in his pockets and underwear.<\/p>\n<p>It was later established that the driver had agreed to help a Ukrainian citizen who was a passenger on the bus transport the cash. The passenger had hidden another more than $10,000 among his personal belongings.<\/p>\n<p>In total, he attempted to transport the equivalent of $42,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brest customs officers stopped an attempt to bring a large sum of money into Belarus without declaring it. A criminal case has been opened. According to the State Customs Committee, while processing an international scheduled bus at the Brest border checkpoint, the driver declared a small amount of personal cash. However, customs officers found $32,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7ef4b4c6a71.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Bus Driver Helped Ukrainian Citizen Smuggle Large Sum Of Money. Criminal Case Opened"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568127","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=568127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}