Revenue seize alcohol, tobacco and €100,000 in cash in Dublin and Laois

Revenue Officers have seized €100,000 in cash and around €150,000 worth of cigarettes and alcohol in Laois and Dublin Airport this week.

Revenue seize alcohol, tobacco and €100,000 in cash in Dublin and Laois

Revenue Officers have seized €100,000 in cash and around €150,000 worth of cigarettes and alcohol in Laois and Dublin Airport this week.

The Special Crime Task Force also recovered drugs worth an estimated €33,000 in Dublin this morning.

In an intelligence-led operation, cannabis resin was found after the search of a house in the north inner city and a man in his 50s was arrested.

He is currently detained at Mountjoy garda station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.

Cannabis resin worth an estimated €33,000 was seized in Dublin today.
Cannabis resin worth an estimated €33,000 was seized in Dublin today.

On Tuesday, Revenue Officers seized more than 192,000 unstamped cigarettes, 10kgs of tobacco and more than 1,960 litres of alcohol when they searched a house in Durrow, County Laois.

Revenue detector dogs Elvis and Stella helped to find the tobacco branded ‘Marlboro’, ‘Winston’, ‘NZ’, ‘Camel’, ‘Kent’ and ‘Excellence’.

They are estimated to be worth around €109,000, while the seized alcohol is valued at more than €41,000.

A man in his thirties was questioned at the scene and investigations are ongoing.

On Wednesday, officers in Dublin Airport stopped and searched a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s travelling to Budapest via Dusseldorf.

They found €100,000 in cash hidden in hand luggage which they believe to be the proceeds of, or intended for use in, criminal activity.

Yesterday at Dublin District Court, Revenue were granted a three-month cash detention order by Judge John Lindsay.

Meanwhile, three homes and two workplaces were searched in Donegal this morning.

The Criminal Assets Bureau, assisted by local gardaí, conducted a search operation in relation to a criminal living in Co Donegal and to the ownership of property suspected to be funded through criminal conduct.

No arrests were made.

- Digital Desk

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