{"id":570941,"date":"2026-08-25T14:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570941"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:47:43","slug":"polish-customs-finds-cigarettes-hidden-in-roofing-felt-belarusian-citizen-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-customs-finds-cigarettes-hidden-in-roofing-felt-belarusian-citizen-detained","title":{"rendered":"Polish Customs Finds Cigarettes Hidden in Roofing Felt. Belarusian Citizen Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Customs and Tax Service discovered a large shipment of contraband cigarettes at the Bobrowniki border crossing with Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>A 40-year-old Belarusian citizen was driving a truck that, according to the documents, was carrying roofing felt. The truck was sent for an X-ray examination and subsequently inspected. More than 150,000 packs of cigarettes were hidden inside the rolls. The value of the contraband shipment was estimated at 3 million zlotys.<\/p>\n<p>A court ordered the man to be remanded in custody. Criminal proceedings have been initiated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_20036\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FndCP3Poi_A?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-570923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/58e53639-2bc8-4db8-bb2e-3c9270092cc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/58e53639-2bc8-4db8-bb2e-3c9270092cc6.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/58e53639-2bc8-4db8-bb2e-3c9270092cc6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/58e53639-2bc8-4db8-bb2e-3c9270092cc6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/58e53639-2bc8-4db8-bb2e-3c9270092cc6-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s Customs and Tax Service discovered a large shipment of contraband cigarettes at the Bobrowniki border crossing with Belarus. A 40-year-old Belarusian citizen was driving a truck that, according to the documents, was carrying roofing felt. The truck was sent for an X-ray examination and subsequently inspected. More than 150,000 packs of cigarettes were hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":570940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8d80e3496ab.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Customs Finds Cigarettes Hidden in Roofing Felt. Belarusian Citizen Detained"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570941","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\/570941","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=570941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}