Revenue seizes cigarettes at Dublin Airport

Revenue officers, yesterday (29/9/15), seized over 40,000 cigarettes with a retail value of €20,000* and arrested four individuals at Dublin Airport.

The ‘Kent’, ‘Marlboro Gold’ and ‘Winston’ cigarettes were discovered in the baggage of the Lithuanian nationals, two female aged 36 and 64 and two males, aged 41 and 63, who had arrived on a flight from Copenhagen.

Yesterday all four individuals appeared before Judge Hugh O’Donnell in the Criminal Courts of Justice charged with the illegal importation of cigarettes and were remanded in custody to appear in court again on Friday 2 October.

These seizures are part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting the supply and sale of illegal cigarettes and tobacco. If businesses or members of the public have any information regarding the smuggling or sale of illegal cigarettes or tobacco, they can contact Revenue in confidence on free phone number 1800 295 295.

Ends: 30/09/2015

*The cigarettes represent a potential loss to the Exchequer of approximately €16,000. This is assuming that they would have displaced the equivalent full tax paid quantity of cigarettes.