Offices searched as part of fuel smuggling probe

Solicitors’ and accountants’ offices were searched during raids carried out on both sides of the Irish border today in a fresh crackdown on fuel smugglers who cost the UK exchequer millions in lost revenue.

The major co-ordinated operation involved officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland on the northern side of the border and the Criminal Assets Bureau, Revenue’s Customs Service and Garda Siochana in the south.