#cigarette smuggling

Two passengers arrested at Larnaca airport when hundreds of packets of cigarettes were found in their luggage were remanded in police custody on Monday by the Larnaca district court. The ...

Kiosk owners in Cyprus warned on Monday that proposed increases in tobacco taxation risk pushing consumers into illegal channels, weakening legal retail trade and reducing state revenues rather than increasing ...

Three Czech passengers departing from Larnaca airport were arrested on Thursday after customs officers found 42,000 untaxed cigarettes in their luggage. During an inspection, customs officers found a total of 210 boxes ...

Customs officials at Paphos airport seized large quantities of tobacco products from two British passengers on Thursday, authorities confirmed on Friday. The two women were stopped before boarding flights to ...

Kiosk owners have sent a letter to the finance ministry asking it to seek an exemption from the EU in relation to an imminent hike in tobacco taxes that would ...

Sixty five untaxed boxes of cigarettes, each with 200 cigarettes, were seized from a 48-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman at Larnaca airport on Sunday. The tobacco products, found in her luggage as ...

Two British nationals were arrested at Larnaca airport after having been found attempting to smuggle 148 boxes of cigarettes from the north to their home country. The pair, a 65-year-old man ...

Authorities confiscated 300 cartons of cigarettes during a Christmas Day security check at Larnaca airport. Customs officers discovered the cigarettes in the luggage of two Turkish Cypriot passengers traveling to the ...

Over 250 hairdressing products, as well as a large haul of duty-free tobacco products, were confiscated earlier this week at Ayios Dhometios crossing point and over €5,000 were collected in fines. On ...

A 30-year-old man in Limassol was fined over €9,000 after police discovered hundreds of contraband cigarettes and tobacco in his possession, police reported on Saturday. The man was initially stopped by ...

Four tourists have been remanded after they attempted to leave the island with almost 300 cartons of duty-free cigarettes, police said on Wednesday. Three women, aged 59, 54 and 53, and a 52-year-old man, ...

Smuggled sex toys, tobacco and other miscellaneous items from Turkey were found in a café and warehouse in a village south of Nicosia. The two locations are owned by two ...

The Customs Department has ramped up checks on potential cigarette smugglers as a wave of massive busts take place at Cyprus’ airports and crossing points. Recent weeks have seen several ...

Larnaca Airport customs officers recently ramped up checks on passengers departing to UK airports, they announced on Tuesday. Last Wednesday, the customs department seized seventy 50g tobacco packages, and 24 cartons ...

The closure of crossing points a year ago cut off cheap lifelines for many shoppers, putting an end to the “great evil” of those buying cigarettes and petrol from the ...

Two men, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, were arrested in the north for cigarette smuggling and also face charges for entering a military zone. In a smuggling operation ...