Cigarettes worth €1m seized after surveillance operation

MORE than three million contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Port yesterday following a huge surveillance operation.

Cigarettes worth €1m seized after surveillance operation

The smuggled cigarettes had a retail value of more than €1 million and would have meant a loss to the exchequer of €880,000.

The 3.3 million cigarettes were found concealed in the bases of two flat-rack containers, which arrived off a ship from Saudi Arabia into Dublin on May 25.

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