REVENUE OFFICERS HAVE seized 1.3 kgs of cocaine and over 74 kgs of herbal cannabis with a combined value of over €1.5 million at Dublin Airport. 

The cocaine, with an estimated value of €91,000, was discovered when Revenue officers stopped and searched a passenger who had arrived on a flight from Lisbon originating in Brazil. 

A man in his 30s was arrested by An Garda Síochána. He was subsequently charged and appeared before the courts yesterday.

Separately, Revenue officers at Dublin Airport  seized over 74 kgs of herbal cannabis with an estimated value of €1,481,600 when two passengers disembarked flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with both flights  originating in Thailand. 

In both cases, approximately 37kgs of herbal cannabis, with an estimated value of €740,800 each, were discovered in vacuum-packed packages within the baggage of the passenger.

A man in his 40s and a woman in her 20s were arrested, charged and have since been before the courts.

Investigations into all of the seizures are ongoing, a Revenue spokesperson said.