A 60-year-old man was remanded on Thursday for two days in connection with the illegal possession of duty-free tobacco products.

The suspect had been stopped by police in his car “in a joint coordinated operation” of the Nicosia and Larnaca police departments in the Larnaca area on Wednesday.

An on-the-spot search of the vehicle and a village warehouse maintained by the man revealed large quantities of duty-free tobacco products.

Larnaca District Court heard that 3,016 boxes of cigarettes, 487 boxes of heated cigarettes, more than 120kg of tobacco and 1kg of hookah tobacco were confiscated by the authorities.