Revenue Seizes cigarettes at Cork Airport

The Customs service announced yesterday it had seized a large quantity of cigarettes at Cork airport and that two people were arrested.

A spokesman said that as a result of routine profiling, officers from Revenue’s Customs service at the airport seized 120,000 cigarettes with a retail value of €56,886 and potential loss to the exchequer of €43,770. The cigarettes were discovered in 12 suitcases, when officers stopped and searched four males as they disembarked from a flight that had arrived from Poland.

Two Polish nationals in their 20s arrested by officers appeared at Cork District Court yesterday and two were remanded in custody to appear today.