{"id":590112,"date":"2026-10-16T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=590112"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:06:08","slug":"bus-driver-tried-to-smuggle-veterinary-medicines-from-poland-into-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/bus-driver-tried-to-smuggle-veterinary-medicines-from-poland-into-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Bus Driver Tried to Smuggle Veterinary Medicines from Poland into Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Customs officers at the Brest checkpoint found 311 packages of veterinary medicines in the luggage of a 46-year-old scheduled bus driver arriving from Poland. The Belarusian citizen had attempted to bring the goods into Belarus without declaring them.<\/p>\n<p>During customs clearance, the driver submitted a passenger declaration listing only a garment steamer. When asked whether he had any other goods that required declaration, he answered no. Customs officers in Brest later established that a black backpack found in one of the rooms within the checkpoint belonged to the driver. It contained veterinary medicines worth approximately 243,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The man was held administratively liable under Part 2 of Article 15.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences. He was fined 20 basic units, and the undeclared goods were confiscated, the State Customs Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/customs_bel\/14419?single\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590074\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590076\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-51.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-51-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-51-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590075\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-590075 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-16_12-47-50-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: t.me\/customs_bel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs officers at the Brest checkpoint found 311 packages of veterinary medicines in the luggage of a 46-year-old scheduled bus driver arriving from Poland. The Belarusian citizen had attempted to bring the goods into Belarus without declaring them. During customs clearance, the driver submitted a passenger declaration listing only a garment steamer. When asked whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":590116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad20523a86f8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Bus Driver Tried to Smuggle Veterinary Medicines from Poland into Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590112","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=590112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590118,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590112\/revisions\/590118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}