{"id":591994,"date":"2026-10-21T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=591994"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:27:03","slug":"belarusian-man-and-four-poles-detained-in-poland-on-suspicion-of-cigarette-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-man-and-four-poles-detained-in-poland-on-suspicion-of-cigarette-smuggling","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Man and Four Poles Detained in Poland on Suspicion of Cigarette Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Five people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of collecting contraband cigarettes delivered from Belarus using weather balloons. One of those detained is a Belarusian citizen, the Polish Border Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/podlaski.strazgraniczna.pl\/pod\/aktualnosci\/74089,Zatrzymani-za-przemyt-papierosow.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three Polish citizens were detained by officers at the Bobrowniki border post. The men had arrived to collect cigarettes delivered by a weather balloon. One of the detainees was listed in police databases as wanted in connection with a theft and for failing to serve a prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Two more people \u2014 a Belarusian citizen and a Polish citizen \u2014 were caught in the act when they arrived to collect the cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>All five detainees have been charged. By court order, they have been remanded in custody for three months.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, officers from the Polish Border Guard\u2019s Podlasie unit have uncovered cigarettes worth 820,000 zlotys ($211,000) that had been transported from Belarus using weather balloons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_591977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591977\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-591977\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358317.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358317-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358317-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-591977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: podlaski.strazgraniczna.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_591976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591976\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-591976\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358314.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358314-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358314-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-358314-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-591976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: podlaski.strazgraniczna.pl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of collecting contraband cigarettes delivered from Belarus using weather balloons. One of those detained is a Belarusian citizen, the Polish Border Guard reports. Three Polish citizens were detained by officers at the Bobrowniki border post. The men had arrived to collect cigarettes delivered by a weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":591997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad8af9aad2df.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Man and Four Poles Detained in Poland on Suspicion of Cigarette Smuggling"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143247,143248],"class_list":["post-591994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-kontrabanda-sigaret","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591994","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=591994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591999,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591994\/revisions\/591999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}