{"id":579158,"date":"2026-09-21T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=579158"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:18:38","slug":"lithuanian-smugglers-of-belarusian-cigarettes-get-away-with-large-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-smugglers-of-belarusian-cigarettes-get-away-with-large-fines","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Smugglers Of Belarusian Cigarettes Get Away With Large Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Lithuanian court has sentenced two citizens who in January last year collected smuggled cigarettes sent from Belarus using a weather balloon.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/ru\/novosti\/17\/3059171\/kontrabanda-sharami-sud-naznachil-dvum-obviniaemym-shtrafy-na-19-tys-evro\">LRT<\/a>, the men were found guilty of smuggling and the illegal trafficking of excise goods as part of an organized group.<\/p>\n<p>They were each fined \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac9,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal case, on January 7\u20138, 2025, the men collected at least 2,500 packs of \u201cMinsk Super Slims\u201d and \u201cNZ Gold\u201d cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lithuanian court has sentenced two citizens who in January last year collected smuggled cigarettes sent from Belarus using a weather balloon. According to LRT, the men were found guilty of smuggling and the illegal trafficking of excise goods as part of an organized group. They were each fined \u20ac10,000 and \u20ac9,000. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab12eb1a0ce0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Smugglers Of Belarusian Cigarettes Get Away With Large Fines"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-579158","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\/579158","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=579158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579159,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579158\/revisions\/579159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}