Nine million cigarettes seized in Dublin

Updated: 19:59, Tuesday, 29 January 2008

€3.1m worth of cigarettes have been seized by Revenue's Customs Service at Dublin Port.

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Cigarettes - Seized by Customs

€3.1m worth of cigarettes have been seized by Revenue's Customs Service at Dublin Port.

Around nine million Raquel brand cigarettes were concealed in a 13m container that arrived from Belgium.

Customs documentation for the contents of the container listed it as household goods that had been shipped to a fictitious company in Co Monaghan.

The detection was a result of container profiling and a scan by the Customs X-Ray Scanner Team.

Investigations into the haul are continuing.

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