Revenue seize more than €1m of cigarettes branded as wood pellets
Revenue has seized two million cigarettes, worth around €1.1m, at Dublin Port.
The smuggled cigarettes, branded 'JIM', arrived into Dublin Port from Vietnam via Rotterdam and were described on the manifest as wood pellets.
Follow-up searches were also carried out by Revenue officers at a business premises in Cork.
The cigarettes represent a loss to the Exchequer of €900,000.
