A SMUGGLED consignment of cigarettes worth €516,000 has been seized by Customs officers at Dublin Port.
The huge of haul of 1.1 million cigarettes was packed into boxes marked as 'Leaf Green foil containers.’
“The ‘Benson & Hedges’ branded cigarettes were concealed in a roll-on roll-off container which arrived into Dublin Port from the United Arab Emirates and were falsely declared as ‘foil containers’,” said a spokesperson.
“This seizure is part of Revenue's ongoing investigations into the organised crime gangs involved in the smuggling of illegal cigarettes. Investigations are continuing both nationally and internationally,” it was added.
