Files prepared for DPP over three crackdowns on cigarette smuggling

CUSTOMS officials are preparing a number of files for the Director of Public Prosecutions following three operations last weekend in Cork against illegal cigarette smuggling.

The operations were the latest in a series of crackdowns against cigarette smugglers operating in the region.

On Saturday, officers from the Revenue’s Customs Service seized 4,600 contraband cigarettes which a couple were selling from the back of their family-type saloon.