500,000 cigarettes seized at airport

Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service have seized over 500,000 cigarettes during a targeted operation at Dublin airport since…

Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service have seized over 500,000 cigarettes during a targeted operation at Dublin airport since the weekend.

The investigation, codenamed Operation Scuab, targeted gangs from Lithuania.

On one flight on Saturday night customs officers searched a large number of passengers and found 20 of them carrying 120,000 cigarettes combined. There were a number of smaller seizures in recent days.

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