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 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.