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18/04/2008
Contraband Cigarettes Seized In Cork
Customs officers in Cork have seized 60,000 contraband cigarettes following an ongoing national investigation.
Garda tip offs led them to focus on a Cambodian-registered freighter that docked in the city on Thursday.
Forty-thousand cigarettes were found when the Defender vessel was searched at Cork Port early on Thursday morning.
The haul led gardaí inquiries to another 20,000 find in a follow-up operation in Blackpool.
Nobody has yet been arrested, but a file is being prepared for the DPP in connection with the seizure.
(DW/JM)
Garda tip offs led them to focus on a Cambodian-registered freighter that docked in the city on Thursday.
Forty-thousand cigarettes were found when the Defender vessel was searched at Cork Port early on Thursday morning.
The haul led gardaí inquiries to another 20,000 find in a follow-up operation in Blackpool.
Nobody has yet been arrested, but a file is being prepared for the DPP in connection with the seizure.
(DW/JM)
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