#SMUGGLING

The Ukrainian National Police dismantled nearly 50 smuggling rings trafficking draft-age men across the border during a major 24-hour operation.

Polish Border Guard officers have detained a Belarusian woman they said was trying to smuggle four undocumented migrants into Lithuania.

People crossing into Poland from Ukraine have been found carrying bags loads of undeclared foreign cash, sometimes running to millions of zloty.

Two people have been detained after using weather balloons to smuggle cigarettes across the border with Belarus into Poland.

Polish-registered boats currently have “de facto immunity” from being boarded.

A Nigerian man is facing 20 years in jail after attempting to smuggle over 1.2 million złoty (€280,000) worth of cocaine into Poland in his stomach.

Polish services thwarted the smuggling of 57 pieces of protected peyote cacti hidden inside teddy bears.

At Chopin Airport in Warsaw, authorities apprehended a Latvian woman smuggling over a kilogram of cocaine. Authorities found the majority of the drugs, approximately 890 grams, in her stomach, and an additional 210 grams in her backpack. The street value of the narcotics exceeds one million złotys (over €230.000).

Ukraine’s border and customs services successfully intercepted an attempt to smuggle a historic Stradivarius violin into Poland through one of the crossings between the two countries, as reported by the State Border Service of Ukraine on Friday.