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14/10/2011
Five Quizzed Over €5m Drug Haul
Five men are being questioned over what is being hailed as one of the largest cocaine seizures, in recent years, in Ireland.
The significant drug seizure saw 80kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value of more than €5m, found at an industrial premises in north Cork yesterday evening.
A 45 year-old Irish man and a 56 year-old German national were arrested at the premises in Bartlemy.
In follow-up raids in Cork and Dublin, another three men were arrested - two Irish men aged 42 and 65 and a 46-year-old Hungarian national.
All five were being held at a number of garda stations in Co Cork and Terenure and Crumlin in Dublin.
The drugs have been brought to Dublin and may be put on display by gardaí later today.
It is understood that the drugs entered the country into Cork Port from Rotterdam.
(LB/CD)
The significant drug seizure saw 80kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value of more than €5m, found at an industrial premises in north Cork yesterday evening.
A 45 year-old Irish man and a 56 year-old German national were arrested at the premises in Bartlemy.
In follow-up raids in Cork and Dublin, another three men were arrested - two Irish men aged 42 and 65 and a 46-year-old Hungarian national.
All five were being held at a number of garda stations in Co Cork and Terenure and Crumlin in Dublin.
The drugs have been brought to Dublin and may be put on display by gardaí later today.
It is understood that the drugs entered the country into Cork Port from Rotterdam.
(LB/CD)
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