A SEARCH of checked-in luggage at Cork Airport has resulted in the discovery of almost 40,000 cigarettes.
THE Revenue officers have discovered almost 40,000 unstamped cigarettes during the search of a passenger’s checked-in luggage on arrival in Cork Airport off a flight from Lagos, Nigeria via Paris.
The ‘Benson & Hedges’ branded cigarettes have an estimated retail value of approximately €19,500 representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of €16,700.
The cigarettes were discovered on Monday.
A man in his 30’s, a Nigerian national, was interviewed and investigations are ongoing.
