260 kg of hashish found in Polish truck at Belarus's Berezovitsa crossing
Belarusian customs found 100 briquettes holding 260 kg of hashish in a Polish carrier's truck that arrived at the Berezovitsa border crossing from Poland in February 2026. A 41-year-old Russian citizen was detained as the consignee after joint work with Russian customs, and Belarusian and Russian customs opened criminal cases.
🇧🇾 Berezovitsa border crossing and Bruzgi-TLC customs post, Grodno Region · Belarus
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Arrested
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Cannabis
260 kg
Agencies
Grodno Regional Customs, Central Operational Customs of the Federal Customs Service of Russia +1
Belarusian customs officers found 100 briquettes of a brown substance in a truck
that arrived at the Berezovitsa border crossing from Poland and weighed them as
260 kg of hashish after forensic testing.[1][2]The State Customs Committee said
the haul was an attempt to bring 260 kg of hashish from the European Union into
the Eurasian Economic Union.[1]
The truck belonged to a Polish carrier and its papers declared a consolidated
cargo from Poland for a Belarusian recipient who was not suspected of knowing
about the hashish hidden among the declared goods.[1]Officers sent the truck
from the border to the Bruzgi-TLC customs clearance post for inspection.[1]The State Committee of Forensic Examinations confirmed the substance was hashish
weighing 260 kg.[1]
Investigative steps and joint operational-search work with Russian customs
officers identified and detained the consignee, a 41-year-old Russian citizen.[1]Grodno Regional Customs and the Federal Customs Service’s Central
Operational Customs in Russia opened criminal cases over the seizure.[1]Members of the group face up to 20 years in prison.[1]
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Photo credited to the State Customs Committee of Belarus on the report of the 260 kg hashish seizure. Photo: ГТКPhoto details
The article gives no separate date for the border stop, the truck inspection or the detention; 17 February 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The State Customs Committee's English rendering names the crossing after the town of Berestovitsa; this report uses the article's own spelling, Berezovitsa.
No home town, name or custody details were published for the detained Russian citizen, and the article does not say what he is charged with.
No value or street price for the 260 kg was published, so none is recorded.
The article says members of the group face up to 20 years, which is the penalty the charge could carry rather than a sentence, so it is not recorded as a figure.
The single large photo is credited to the State Customs Committee of Belarus without a caption confirming it depicts this seizure, and it is not established which of the three page images show the drugs.
Only one opened source covers this event; the customs committee's own statement on this seizure was not located, so the account rests on this outlet's relay of it.
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