"After Pulling Out, There Was A Showdown Inside The Car."

• 3.09.2025, 9:00

A Belarusian told how he tried to get to Poland under the accelerated scheme with privileged people.

At the end of August, border guards and tax inspectors started to fine people who use privileges to pass the border without queues and earn money on it. On August 26, the State Border Committee reported that it had identified more than 15 attempts of illegal use of the privileged right to enter the checkpoint "Brest. BGmedia talked to a witness of such a situation. According to the man, he paid 50 euros to enter the checkpoint without queuing, and already inside the checkpoint the mini-bus driver and the concessionaire were fined for illegal business activity.

Brest resident Mikhail (name changed for security reasons) needed to go to Warsaw on business at the end of August. He did not want to use the scheme of boarding the bus at the beginning of the queue in front of the checkpoint "Brest", because his friends offered him a more profitable option, and even faster - a mini-bus with a privileged person inside.

At the appointed time Mikhail was picked up in the center of Brest. While arriving at the waiting area in front of the "Brest" point, nine more passengers were picked up. Each paid 50 euros each for expedited border crossing. That's 500 euros from ten people. The last to board the mini-bus was a Brest woman with a son under 3 years old.

Thanks to them the mini-bus did not stand in the electronic queue, and after paying all the fees in the waiting area went straight to the checkpoint "Brest". Passengers passed the border control without any problems. The border guards had questions for the driver and a Brest woman with a small son. They were taken in turn to a separate room for questioning.

They were ready for it, as they knew that tax officers work at the checkpoint "Brest" and fine the privileged for illegal business activities. The Brest woman and the driver agreed in advance that they had known each other for a long time and periodically communicate. The scheme is as follows: the woman needed to get to Terespol with her son urgently, so she asked her acquaintance to give her a lift, since he was going on the same day.

In the office, the border guards asked the Brest woman to check her cell phone. She was ready for it, so she cleaned it in advance, and deleted Telegram in general, so that the border guards would not dig into her personal correspondence. The woman voiced what she had agreed with the driver and was calm. The border guards eventually let her go.

When she returned to the mini-bus, she told her fellow travelers about everything. Next, they waited together for the driver. However, when he was brought, the border guards asked Brest woman to go with them once again.

In the same office, the woman was waiting for the tax officers. Border guards told her that they had talked to the driver of the mini-bus. In his phone they found correspondence with her, the phone numbers matched. In the correspondence they discussed the details of the deal. It was explicitly written that the woman would receive 250 euros for her services.

This correspondence was the reason for the tax authorities to fine Brest woman for illegal entrepreneurial activity under part 2 of article 13.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. They fined her 20 basic units (840 rubles). After that, the woman was released.

Soon the whole company was ordered to leave the checkpoint "Brest". As a result, none of them got to Poland that evening. After leaving, there was a showdown inside the car. The driver admitted that he had not deleted the correspondence, and agreed to transfer 840 rubles to the card of the Brest woman to pay the fine. As it turned out, he was also fined 20 basic units. Passengers began to demand their 50 euros, the driver reluctantly returned them. As a result, he not only earned nothing, but also lost 1680 rubles.

After the showdown, Mikhail took a seat in one of the buses at the beginning of the queue in front of the checkpoint "Brest" - for the same 50 euros. And the next day he found himself in Warsaw. He does not know how the other passengers of the mini-bus got to Poland.