Cork man fined after bringing 20,000 cigarettes on flight from Tenerife

Accused had not paid duty or tax totalling €13,000 when he was stopped at Cork Airport on May 15, court told

Accused pleaded guilty to importing cigarettes without the payment of duty and was fined €2,500. File picture: iStock

Twenty thousand cigarettes carried by an air passenger from Tenerife to Cork had no stamps to indicate the required payment of €13,000 in excise duties and now the cigarettes have been destroyed and the young man who carried them in his luggage has been convicted and fined.

Shane Holland, of Willow Bank, Nash’s Boreen, Fairhill, Cork, pleaded guilty to importing cigarettes without the payment of duty.