Five million cigarettes with a retail value of almost €2.4 million have been seized by Revenue’s customs officers at Rosslare port.
The cigarettes including Minsk and Winston brands were detected when officers stopped and scanned a truck as it arrived on a ferry from Cherbourg yesterday, Revenue said in a statement.
The cigarettes were concealed in six large tanks, which had been described on the ship’s manifest as ‘thermal storage tanks.’
A Lithuanian national was interviewed by Revenue officials and investigations are ongoing, the statement added.
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The seizure is part of Revenue’s continuing operations targeting the supply and sale of illegal cigarettes in the so-called “shadow economy”.