Jump to full article: Irish Times (ie), 2009-10-29
Author: ELAINE KEOGH
Intro: ALL NINE men who were arrested in connection with the seizure of tens of millions of cigarettes in Greenore Port, Co Louth, on Tuesday have been released.
A statement from the Garda Press Office last evening confirmed the release, and said a file was being prepared for the DPP.
The nine men include seven Irish nationals aged between 19 and mid-40s, one Lithuanian in his 50s and one Ukrainian in his 40s. They were held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at Garda stations in counties Louth and Monaghan.
Customs and Revenue officers yesterday began the painstaking task of stripping the vessel containing the haul, the MV Anne Scan, and counting what officials suspect amount to 120 million cigarettes, worth about €50 million.
The ship is a general cargo vessel some 80m in length which is German-owned but was chartered from the Philippines.
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