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13/04/2012
38 Million Cigarettes Intercepted At Dublin Port
Dublin Port customers officers have seized 38 million cigarettes with a retail value of €14.7m.
The cigarettes filled four 40-foot shipping containers and represented a potential loss to the Exchequer of €13.1m.
Each container carried around 9.5m of the "Golden Eagiie" brand cigarettes, which originated in Vietnam and arrived into Dublin Port via Rotterdam.
The containers cargo was listed as “wood briquettes”.
Mr Twohig said that investigations are at an early stage, and it could be a number of months before there is significant progress.
No arrests have yet been made, but several individuals were interviewed, documents were seized, and a premises was searched.
Mr Twohig said the brand of cigarettes seized, Golden Eagiie, was not one they were familiar with.
Investigations are ongoing nationally and internationally.
The cigarettes filled four 40-foot shipping containers and represented a potential loss to the Exchequer of €13.1m.
Each container carried around 9.5m of the "Golden Eagiie" brand cigarettes, which originated in Vietnam and arrived into Dublin Port via Rotterdam.
The containers cargo was listed as “wood briquettes”.
Mr Twohig said that investigations are at an early stage, and it could be a number of months before there is significant progress.
No arrests have yet been made, but several individuals were interviewed, documents were seized, and a premises was searched.
Mr Twohig said the brand of cigarettes seized, Golden Eagiie, was not one they were familiar with.
Investigations are ongoing nationally and internationally.
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