Customs officers seized 399 vials of botox from a car at the Agios Dometios crossing point early on Thursday. The driver was arrested, then released after agreeing to settle the case out of court.
Initial inquiries indicate he appears to have been planning to fly from Larnaca airport to Rome via a third country, the Customs Department said.
Officers stopped the car, which had Turkish Cypriot registration plates and was being driven by a 38-year-old Turkish Cypriot man, at about 1am. They found the vials, used in cosmetic procedures, in a small bag inside a suitcase.
The products were seized for breaching the Green Line Regulation and article 9 of the law on medicinal products for human use (Law 70(I)/2001), which governs their quality control, supply and pricing. His car was also seized as the means of transporting them.
He was released after customs accepted his offer to settle the case out of court by paying 9,000 euros for the products and a further 1,000 euros to get his car back.
