Revenue seize more than €1m of cigarettes branded as wood pellets

Revenue has seized two million cigarettes, worth around €1.1m, at Dublin Port.

The smuggled cigarettes, branded 'JIM', arrived into Dublin Port from Vietnam via Rotterdam and were described on the manifest as wood pellets.

Follow-up searches were also carried out by Revenue officers at a business premises in Cork.

The cigarettes represent a loss to the Exchequer of €900,000.