Cigarettes seized at Dublin airport

Updated: 17:42, Friday, 11 January 2008

112,000 cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport today from passengers arriving on a flight from Riga, Latvia.

1 of 1Cigarettes - Customs targets cigarette smuggling gang
Cigarettes - Customs targets cigarette smuggling gang

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Revenue's Customs officers made the seizure as part of an operation targeting a cigarette smuggling gang.

The gang has been selling cigarettes on the black market throughout Ireland.

The cigarettes seized today are valued at €38,080.

In a separate operation, Customs officers seized 27,000 cigarettes from passengers arriving on a flight from Tenerife.

Last year, Customs officers at Dublin Airport seized 38.8m
cigarettes and 746kgs of tobacco.

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