Crackdown by Revenue nets 91m cigarettes

There have been 91m cigarettes, 4,000kg of tobacco, 199,000 litres of fuel and 77,000 counterfeit items seized since the start of the year, the Government has revealed.

Crackdown by Revenue nets 91m cigarettes

A crackdown by Revenue Commissioners is responsible for huge volumes now being seized, Finance Minister Michael Noonan told the Dáil.

In relation to tobacco seizures, he attributed the successful detections to a combination of intense screening of packages, cargo and vehicles entering the country and to high levels of intelligence sharing with international counterparts and the European Anti-Fraud Office.

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