Man arrested over major contraband seizure at Mountjoy Prison released without charge
A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
At Dublin Port, alone, €87 million worth has been seized since 2016.
The contraband originated in countries including Cameroon, Indonesia, India and Japan.
A significant amount of contraband including cannabis, steroids, mobile phones, tobacco and other illicit items were found in cereal boxes in the laundry room by another prison officer in 2018.
The discovery was made after a vehicle that arrived from France was searched.
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
The cash and cigarettes were seized in three separate incidents in Dublin Airport.
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
Over 28,000 contraband cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport this weekend.
This came as part of the ongoing Operation Thor.
Revenue said that the total amount seized represented a loss of almost €4 million to the taxpayer.
The Irish Prison Service launched a confidential helpline today for inmates and members of the public to report information about contraband.
Nearly half of those were in Mountjoy Prison.
The search was carried out early yesterday morning.
The search was based on intelligence gathered.
The accusations come after a report from the Revenue Commissioners into illegal tobacco flooding Ireland.
About 30 phones were found in the high security prison.
The animal was nabbed while sneaking a phone and saws to a convict in Sao Paulo.
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
The eight million cigarettes were seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service in boxes labelled “Garlic & Cheese Tear & Share”.
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
The convicted drug deal has been given an additional six months for possession of a mobile phone, which is forbidden for prisoners.
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