Cocaine worth an estimated €7.2 million was seized at Rosslare Europort, Co Wexford on Thursday.
The seizure was made by Revenue officers as part of an intelligence-led operation and amounted to approximately 104kgs of the drug.
The seizure was made as part of a joint operation conducted by Revenue’s customs service and the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.
Two men, one aged in his 40s and the other in his 50s, were arrested on Friday by gardaí following the seizure.
They were detained under the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at Garda stations eastern region and southern region. Both men were later released without charge and gardaí are to prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
More than €16 million of cannabis was seized by gardaí and Revenue officials at Rosslare Europort on Saturday.
About 783kg of herbal cannabis and 70kg of cannabis resin were discovered with assistance of Revenue’s X-ray scanner and a detector dog.
The suspected illegal drugs were discovered when Revenue officers, with the assistance of gardaí, stopped and searched an unaccompanied freight unit which had been taken off a ferry from Bilbao, Spain.
The drugs are subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland.
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