{"id":578056,"date":"2026-09-18T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=578056"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:00:46","slug":"polish-smuggler-tried-to-transport-belarusian-cigarettes-on-a-combine-harvester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-smuggler-tried-to-transport-belarusian-cigarettes-on-a-combine-harvester","title":{"rendered":"Polish Smuggler Tried To Transport Belarusian Cigarettes On A Combine Harvester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polish border guards detained a 58-year-old Polish citizen who attempted to smuggle Belarusian cigarettes into the country. He chose an unusual means of transport for the operation \u2014 a combine harvester.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Podlaskie Border Guard unit, officers from the Ku\u017anica outpost spotted an \u201cobject\u201d dropping \u201cpackages\u201d and immediately went to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On the premises where the package had fallen from the sky, the man was hiding boxes of cigarettes in his combine harvester. A total of 1,500 packs of cigarettes without Polish excise stamps were seized from him.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been charged and will remain under police supervision and is prohibited from leaving the country. He is also required to pay 15,000 zlotys as security for a possible penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this year, border guards in the Podlaskie Voivodeship have intercepted cigarette smuggling by air worth a total of 6.9 million zlotys and detained 43 people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_577979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577979\" style=\"width: 1194px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-577979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-46062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-46062.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-46062-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-46062-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-577979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stra\u017c Graniczna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish border guards detained a 58-year-old Polish citizen who attempted to smuggle Belarusian cigarettes into the country. He chose an unusual means of transport for the operation \u2014 a combine harvester. According to the Podlaskie Border Guard unit, officers from the Ku\u017anica outpost spotted an \u201cobject\u201d dropping \u201cpackages\u201d and immediately went to the scene. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":578055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aacefb310f63.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Smuggler Tried To Transport Belarusian Cigarettes On A Combine Harvester"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-578056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578056","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=578056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578058,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578056\/revisions\/578058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}