On 13 November 2025 customs officers at Luxembourg-Findel Airport’s cargo centre checked an air-freight shipment from the United States that had been flagged as suspicious.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Shipping documents declared it as 3,063 kg of “Furniture, Deck chair, Sofa Stool” for a Belgian company, made up of twelve pallets each holding about twelve cardboard boxes wrapped in black plastic film.[1][2][3][5][7][6] A scan showed the insides of the benches were filled with packets, and officers opening the crates found 170 vacuum-sealed packs.[1][8][2][3][4][7][6]

A rapid test identified the contents as cannabis, with the 170 packs holding 798.84 kg described as good quality, and the goods were seized.[1][8][3][4][6] The operation was run by the customs administration with the judicial police narcotics section and the Luxembourg prosecutor, which ordered the seizure.[8][4][7]

As the shipment was not for the domestic market, the authorities organised a joint operation with Belgium and delivered the pallets under surveillance to the planned Belgian address.[8][2][3][6] Investigators then found Belgium was only a transit country because the organisers had redirected the delivery to another European country, which was not named.[8][2][3][7][6] Luxembourg reported the case and asked the foreign authorities to take over criminal proceedings, and no arrests were announced in the accounts.[8][2][3][6]

Le Quotidien reported that 798.4 kilos of cannabis were found on 13 November at the Cargo freight centre of Luxembourg-Findel Airport, quoting a prosecutor’s statement in which the haul was described as a new record seizure for the Customs and Excise administration.[7]