{"id":576356,"date":"2026-09-14T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576356"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:44:05","slug":"belarusian-man-loses-e5-000-hidden-in-wet-wipes-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-loses-e5-000-hidden-in-wet-wipes-at-border","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man Loses \u20ac5,000 Hidden in Wet Wipes at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian citizen had \u20ac5,000 confiscated at the border with Lithuania. According to the State Customs Committee, the man was traveling from Lithuania in a FIAT car through the Benyakoni checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>During an oral interview, he told a customs officer that he was carrying \u20ac5,500 and BYN 200. The customs officer doubted the traveler\u2019s statement and was proven right. The man had a pack of wet wipes in his bag, with another \u20ac5,000 hidden inside.<\/p>\n<p>The concealed cash was confiscated. Administrative proceedings have been launched.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth recalling that cash totaling no more than the equivalent of $10,000 can be transported across the border without declaration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_576340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576340\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-576340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-56-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-576340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_576338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576338\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-576338 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-14_12-29-59-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-576338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: State Customs Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian citizen had \u20ac5,000 confiscated at the border with Lithuania. According to the State Customs Committee, the man was traveling from Lithuania in a FIAT car through the Benyakoni checkpoint. During an oral interview, he told a customs officer that he was carrying \u20ac5,500 and BYN 200. The customs officer doubted the traveler\u2019s statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":576355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa7c1eded85e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man Loses \u20ac5,000 Hidden in Wet Wipes at Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576356","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=576356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}