Customs seize 1.4m cigarettes at airport

CUSTOMS made their largest single seizure of smuggled cigarettes off a flight at the weekend during a major operation against a Baltic gang.

The haul of 600,000 cigarettes was confiscated by officers from passengers arriving at Dublin Airport from Riga, the Latvian capital, on Saturday morning.

Customs then recovered a further 800,000 cigarettes off three more flights from Riga on Monday and Tuesday.