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07/02/2008
200,000 Contraband Cigarettes Seized In Cork
Gardai and customs officers seized 200,000 contraband cigarettes in Cork yesterday.
The cigarettes were discovered in number of operations.
60,000 smuggled cigarettes were found during a search of a van being driven by a Moldovan national in Fermoy.
In a follow-up operation, a further 22,000 were discovered on the north side of Cork city.
Meanwhile, in a separate surveillance operation of eastern European flights into Cork, approximately 110,000 cigarettes were seized.
A number of people were arrested after the seizures and files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in all cases.
Revenue said that last week a Lithuanian man was sentenced to one month's imprisonment by Cork District Court for the attempted evasion of payment of excise duty on 17,560 cigarettes. The man was stopped by customs after arriving at Cork Airport on a flight from Amsterdam.
It has revealed that this year alone 500,000 cigarettes, with a potential loss of revenue amounting to €146,0000, have been seized in Cork.
(VB)
The cigarettes were discovered in number of operations.
60,000 smuggled cigarettes were found during a search of a van being driven by a Moldovan national in Fermoy.
In a follow-up operation, a further 22,000 were discovered on the north side of Cork city.
Meanwhile, in a separate surveillance operation of eastern European flights into Cork, approximately 110,000 cigarettes were seized.
A number of people were arrested after the seizures and files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions in all cases.
Revenue said that last week a Lithuanian man was sentenced to one month's imprisonment by Cork District Court for the attempted evasion of payment of excise duty on 17,560 cigarettes. The man was stopped by customs after arriving at Cork Airport on a flight from Amsterdam.
It has revealed that this year alone 500,000 cigarettes, with a potential loss of revenue amounting to €146,0000, have been seized in Cork.
(VB)
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200,000 Contraband Cigarettes Seized In Cork
Gardai and customs officers seized 200,000 contraband cigarettes in Cork yesterday. The cigarettes were discovered in number of operations. 60,000 smuggled cigarettes were found during a search of a van being driven by a Moldovan national in Fermoy. In a follow-up operation, a further 22,000 were discovered on the north side of Cork city.
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Revenue Officers in Cork have seized 25,000 cigarettes following a search operation at a house in Macroom. The cigarettes, branded 'Marlboro', 'L&M', 'Mayfair' and 'Che', have a retail value in excess of €13,000, representing a loss of around €10,400 to the Exchequer.
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€3.1m Cigarettes Seized At Dublin Port
Customs officers at Dublin Port discovered eight million smuggled cigarettes, stored in boxes labelled “garlic and cheese tear and share”. The find was made by officers using a mobile scanner during a routine check of a refrigerated unit that had arrived at the port from Rotterdam.
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