Tobacco gangs using truck drivers’ cabs to smuggle cash

Bag with €300k seized as Customs reveal criminal gangs are stashing money in foreign-bound trucks

Tobacco gangs using truck drivers’ cabs to smuggle cash

Tobacco smuggling gangs are hiding plastic bags stuffed with hundreds of thousands of euro in cash in the cabins of foreign-bound trucks in a new system to siphon off their millions.

Customs officers have identified the trend after making a number of seizures, in one case involving a bag containing almost €300,000 in cash.

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