Saturday 25 May, 2013
The 38-year-old lorry driver from Tyrone was sentenced to 14 years in jail today after being caught with a large amount of cannabis in his truck.
Up to 100 retailers are to meet tomorrow evening on the issues of cigarette smuggling and illegal cigarette selling in Dublin.
For every endangered animal in a pet shop or home – ten others could have died during capture or transportation.
Revenue said separate discoveries of drugs and cigarettes this week would have been worth about €65,000.
The report from the International Narcotics Control Board said Europe alone almost one new substance is appearing every week.
Two airline stewards were off-duty when they were detained by authorities over alleged smuggling of cigarettes from the Canary Islands.
Interpol says coordinated investigation into theft of sports cars worth around €6m involved 14 member states.
The Health Minister James Reilly wants to increase the price of 20 cigarettes by around €6 in the next six years. What do you think?
Seizures were made in three separate operations today by the Revenue’s Customs Service.
US border protection agents noticed something strange about the wheelchair cushion…
Finance Minister says Revenue sometimes requires interpreters when questioning passengers who have insufficient Irish or English.
South Korean officials said yesterday that they intercepted the smuggling of capsules containing the flesh of deceased infants.
Customs officers intercepted smuggled capsules from China which they say contained human flesh.
The “L&M” brand cigarettes, seized at Rosslare, had a reported retail value of €1.4 million.
The Revenue Commissioners said that it would take a number of months before any prosecutions would be brought forward after 38 million cigarettes, worth nearly €15 million, were seized yesterday.
Revenue officials say the illegal cigarettes had a retail value of €14.7 million.
The average fine for cigarette smuggling last year was less than €2,000, according to Revenue figures.
Customs officials seized more than 27,000 cigarettes from the baggage of a British national in Dublin Airport today.
The cigarettes and tobacco seized in a series of raids were worth more than €80,000.
Over 109 million illegal cigarettes with a retail value of €45.9m were seized by Revenue Customs officials last year.
Customs believe that the three people who were said to be carrying the cigarettes are part of an Eastern European cigarette smuggling gang.
The seizure, with an estimated street value of nearly €4 million, was made at a premises in Co Monaghan over the weekend.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
The Exchequer is losing out on €250million a year – or around half the amount recently cut from the social welfare budget.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Retailers Against Smuggling has called for the government to impose a minimum fine for cigarette smuggling.
An Australian was given the payment after authorities wrongly accused him of attempting to smuggling drugs in his shampoo.
Three men and a woman from Poland have been remanded in custody for a week over the 53,860 cigarettes found at Dublin Airport.
Meanwhile consumption of cheaper rolled tobacco has increased dramatically.
The Irish Heart Foundation is calling for a €1 tax increase on a packet of 20 cigarettes in the next Budget. But Retailers Against Smuggling believe there should be no increase in excise on tobacco.
The man was caught at an airport in French Guiana with hummingbirds wrapped in cloth and put in pouches sewn inside his pants.
Honduran authorities have been unloading the vessel since its crew tried to scuttle it after its detection on Wednesday.
Three men being questioned over the seizure of €2.7m worth of cigarettes in Co Louth.
Suspicions were raised when the woman left the facility with a bulky suitcase after a conjugal visit.
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Dublin District Court judge sends smuggler down for six months after he’s caught with nearly 10,000 illegal cigarettes.
TWO MEN HAVE been arrested after eight million cigarettes and two truck were seized in Co Louth. The ‘B&H’ brand cigarettes – with an estimated retail value of €3.4m – arrived into Dublin Port on a container from China.
Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service seized the cigarettes near Drogheda, Co Louth and gardai arrested the two men as part of the investigation. They are preparing a file for the DPP.
AN ITALIAN MAN has been arrested at Belfast International Airport as he attempted to smuggle £10,000 out of the country in his underwear. The man was attempted to board a flight to Rome last Friday when he was detained by security.
He was unable to provide a reasonable explanation for the sterling and euro notes discovered in his pants.
The cash has been detained, but will be returned to the man if he can prove that it was sourced legitimately.
THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS have launched a new confidential free phone number for the public to provide information relating to illegal cigarettes. The number is 1800 295 295. Revenue officers have seized smuggled cigarettes worth over €5 million in the past fortnight.
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Police unsure if decapitated British soldier was targeted or not |
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