{"id":568174,"date":"2026-08-14T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=568174"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:32:37","slug":"bus-driver-agreed-to-help-passenger-carry-large-sum-across-border-with-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/bus-driver-agreed-to-help-passenger-carry-large-sum-across-border-with-poland","title":{"rendered":"Bus Driver Agreed To Help Passenger Carry Large Sum Across Border With Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Brest customs officers stopped an attempt to illegally move a large amount of cash across the customs border. The incident occurred while an international bus service was being processed at the Brest border checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector&#8217;s attention was drawn to the bus driver, a Belarusian citizen. The man declared only a small amount of personal cash, but a search of his pockets and underwear uncovered more than $32,000.<\/p>\n<p>It was established that the driver had agreed to help a Ukrainian citizen who was traveling on the same bus transport the cash. The passenger had hidden another more than $10,000 among his personal belongings. The total amount therefore exceeded $42,000 in equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>Brest Customs opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code of Belarus. The article carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_568151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568151\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-568151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-59-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_568150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568150\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-568150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-14_12-44-58-599x400.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brest customs officers stopped an attempt to illegally move a large amount of cash across the customs border. The incident occurred while an international bus service was being processed at the Brest border checkpoint. The inspector&#8217;s attention was drawn to the bus driver, a Belarusian citizen. The man declared only a small amount of personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":568173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a7f18fa8b48a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Bus Driver Agreed To Help Passenger Carry Large Sum Across Border With Poland"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568174","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=568174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}