Five-million illegal cigarettes worth about E1.5m seized by customs

Cormac O’Keeffe

The cigarettes had a street value of about E1.5 million and would have deprived the State of E1.2 million in lost revenue.

The seizure brings the total number of seized contraband cigarettes so far this year to 13 million, with a total revenue loss of E3.4 million. Yesterday’s consignment of cigarettes was found inside a refrigerated trailer of a Scania truck.