DUBLIN: Revenue officers seized €20,000 worth of cigarettes at Dublin Airport on Tuesday.
They discovered the 40,000 cigarettes in the baggage of four Lithuanian nationals, who had arrived on a flight from Copenhagen.
The ‘Kent’, ‘Marlboro Gold’ and ‘Winston’ cigarettes were found in the luggage of two females aged 36 and 64 and two males, aged 41 and 63.
All four individuals yesterday appeared before Judge Hugh O’Donnell in the Criminal Courts of Justice charged with the illegal importation of cigarettes.
They were remanded in custody to appear in court again on Friday 2 October.
It is the most recent big haul for customs who have seized a large number of goods in recent weeks.
Earlier this month they found over €1million of cocaine at Dublin Port, just under two weeks after discovering 1.9 kilos of the drug at Dublin Airport.
