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600,000 dodgy Marlboro cigarettes found hidden under flip-flops
They were hidden in a crate of “safety footwear.”
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They were hidden in a crate of “safety footwear.”
The package was sent to “Tony Tuto, Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa”.
CITES says that the number of elephants killed in the past three years is “far exceeding” the number born.
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The man was sentenced, despite his work in helping Mongolia open its first dinosaur museum.
Revenue intercepted the container at Dublin Port yesterday.
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid were convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine from Peru to Spain.
The pair had ingested over 100 pellets containing the drug.
Retailers are calling on the government to step up their fight against smugglers.
More than 16,000 cigarettes were seized from the man’s luggage after he arrived on a flight from Dubai earlier today.
Under a provision of the Finance Bill published today, authorities will be allowed to search “any bag or receptacle” that they reasonably believe contains an illegally smuggled tobacco product.
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid have been transferred from a low security facility, and could now be sharing a cell with as many as 38 other inmates.
Last week a prosecutor said they would need to give a fuller confession if they expected to have their sentences reduced.
Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid entered guilty pleas at a court hearing last night.
15 million cigarettes have been seized in the first half of this year, compared with 95 million last year.
Set up by her sister, the fund for Michaella McCollum Connolly aims to raise £20,000.
Tony Abbott wants Australia to pay “wardens” in Indonesian villages as well as bounty payments to curb immigration into Australia.
IDs, stamps, a gun and passports were among the items found by the alleged gang.
The tobacco was discovered when customs officers intercepted a van at a location in Dublin on Wednesday.
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.
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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.