Three men were arrested after the Revenus Custom's Service seized seven million cigarettes in Dublin.
One man in his 40s and two in their 20s were arrested at a business in Dublin.
The seizure occured as the cigarettes were being offloaded from a 40 foot container at a commercial premises in Baldonnell Business Park, Dublin.
The cigarettes, 'BusinessMan' brand illicit whites have a retail value of €2.9m and had the potential loss to the Exchequer of €2.3m.
The cigarettes arrived in the country through Belfast Port two days ago having been shipped from Malaysia under the guise of 'wooden flooring', before being transported to Dublin.
Since the beginning of 2011, approximately 62m cigarettes with a retail value of €26m and a potential loss to the exchequer of €20.7m have been seized by Customs.
