{"id":588609,"date":"2026-10-13T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=588609"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:28:36","slug":"a-cigarette-snowflake-floated-into-lithuania-along-the-neris-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/a-cigarette-snowflake-floated-into-lithuania-along-the-neris-river","title":{"rendered":"A Cigarette \u201cSnowflake\u201d Floated Into Lithuania Along the Neris River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards pulled a cigarette \u201csnowflake\u201d out of the Neris River.<\/p>\n<p>The raft, shaped like a snowflake, was carrying 2,400 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps. The cigarettes were wrapped in plastic and concealed in cavities inside the raft. The shipment was valued at more than \u20ac13,000.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the smuggling has been launched.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_588506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588506\" style=\"width: 1100px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-588506 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-588506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_588505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588505\" style=\"width: 831px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-588505 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"831\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-7.jpg 831w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-588505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_588504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588504\" style=\"width: 953px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-588504 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-3.jpg 953w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-3-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261012-cig-pavovere-3-768x597.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-588504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: VSAT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards pulled a cigarette \u201csnowflake\u201d out of the Neris River. The raft, shaped like a snowflake, was carrying 2,400 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes bearing Belarusian excise stamps. The cigarettes were wrapped in plastic and concealed in cavities inside the raft. The shipment was valued at more than \u20ac13,000. An investigation into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":588613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acdebb85d183.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"A Cigarette \u201cSnowflake\u201d Floated Into Lithuania Along the Neris River"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[143247],"class_list":["post-588609","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\/588609","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=588609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588614,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588609\/revisions\/588614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}