Cigarettes worth more than €600,000, disguised as railway sleepers, have been seized at Dublin Port.
Branded Marvel, the illegal haul comprised 864,000 cigarettes with a tax value of €483,000 to the State.
Officers at the port said they made the discovery on Tuesday as a result of routine profiling. They were confiscated from a vessel that had arrived into the Republic from Rotterdam.
The search, which was carried out with the assistance of Revenue’s mobile X-ray scanner, led to discovery of the cigarettes concealed within the load which was manifested as railway sleepers.
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Investigations are ongoing.
