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900,000 cigarettes seized at Dublin Port

Almost a million cigarettes have been seized by Revenue. They were located in a number of operations...
TodayFM
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6:29 PM - 12 Oct 2016



900,000 cigarettes seized at D...

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900,000 cigarettes seized at Dublin Port

TodayFM
TodayFM

6:29 PM - 12 Oct 2016



Almost a million cigarettes have been seized by Revenue.

They were located in a number of operations in Dublin and Cork over the past week.

Detector dog Casey located 900,000 of them smuggled in five pallets labelled as catering equipment in Dublin Port today - while in Cork on Sunday Detector dog Harvey found 7,000 cigarettes in two houses in Castletownbere.

In all 930,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized representing a potential loss to the exchequer of just over 400,000 euro.

Four men have been arrested in connection with the operations.

 



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