By Dan Walsh Revenue officers seized 31,220 cigarettes and 31 kgs of tobacco at Rosslare Europort on Saturday. The smuggled cigarettes branded ‘John Player’, ‘L&M Blue’ and ‘Richmond’ and the tobacco branded ‘Amber Leaf’ have a combined estimated retail value of over €39,300 representing a loss to the exchequer of €31,797. As part of theContinue reading “Tobacco and alcohol seized at Rosslare”
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Wine smuggling smashed at Rosslare
Revenue officers at Rosslare Europort seized over 13,100 litres of wine during routine profiling earlier this week. The smuggled alcohol, with an estimated retail value of over €247,400 representing a loss to the Exchequer of €148,800, had arrived in a foreign registered truck that had disembarked a ferry from France. Investigations are ongoing with aContinue reading “Wine smuggling smashed at Rosslare”
€5.54m cannabis seized at Rosslare
Revenue officers seized 277kgs of herbal cannabis worth €5.54 million at Rosslare Europport during a routine search last Saturday morning. The drugs were discovered when an unaccompanied trailer that had arrived into Rosslare from Bilbao, Spain was selected for examination. The subsequent search, with the assistance of Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner, led to the discoveryContinue reading “€5.54m cannabis seized at Rosslare”
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