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OVER €5 MILLION worth of contraband tobacco products have been seized by Revenue in the last week.
Officers performed a series of intelligence-led operations on houses and warehouses at different locations around the country. They also discovered almost three million cigarettes at Dublin Port.
In total, over 9.5 million cigarettes were seized, which Revenue says represents a total loss to the Exchequer of nearly €4 million (this is assuming that the quantity of cigarettes seized would have displaced the same quantity of full tax paid cigarettes and tobacco).
Four operations have been carried out across the country since last Thursday with different amounts of cigarettes seized in each case. The quantities taken during each seizure were as follows:
Revenue said that the seizures were part of its ongoing efforts to target the illegal importation, supply, and selling of tobacco products.
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