Five people, including a citizen of Belarus, have been detained in Poland on suspicion of smuggling cigarettes, which were delivered from Belarus using weather balloons, reports the Polish Border Guard.

Three Polish citizens were detained by border post officers in Bobrowniki. The men came to collect cigarettes that had been transported across the border on a weather balloon. It turned out that one of the detainees was in police search databases in connection with theft and the need to serve a prison sentence.
Two more people — a citizen of Belarus and a citizen of Poland — were detained on the spot when they arrived for the smuggled cigarettes.
All five were charged. By court decision, they were taken into custody for three months.
Over the past few days, officers of the Podlaskie Division of the Polish Border Guard discovered cigarettes transferred from Belarus using weather balloons, with a total value of 820,000 zlotys (about 211,000 dollars).
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