An Egyptian has been jailed six months suspended for two years and fined €2,231 after he pleaded guilty to failing to declare cigarettes.

Mousaad Zohary Abdeldayem Ahmed, 46, passed through the green channel which says nothing to declare on his arrival at Malta International Airport and was found carrying 250 packs of Rothmans blue.

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