Police detain three for suspected cigarette smuggling by weather balloons
Officers seized 120,000 Belarusian cigarettes with no Polish excise marks.
Police detained three men over suspected cigarette smuggling using meteorological balloons, Poland Police said.
Court decisions sent two men, aged 42 and 45, to custody for three months, while a 66-year-old man was placed under police supervision.
Officers seized 120,000 Belarusian cigarettes without Polish excise tax stamps. The tobacco was allegedly carried across by balloons, a method authorities said helped move the goods without standard border controls.
The case is being handled as an investigation into smuggling. The three suspects remain under the court-ordered measures, with two in prison and one under police supervision.
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Poland Police