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Customs seize €4.8m contraband cigarette hauls 

Jump to full article: Ireland Online, 2009-11-17

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Customs officials were tonight counting more than 12 million smuggled cigarettes seized in two massive hauls.

The tobacco, which had a street value of €4.8m, was discovered in separate loads at Dublin Port.

Half of the cigarettes had been labelled as hair extensions and arrived from Barcelona packed on to 25 pallets.

The Regal brand haul was trailed for seven days before a driver with the container was stopped at a checkpoint at the M1 Dundalk South turn-off last night.

An Irish man detained at the scene was later released and is said to be helping customs with their investigations.

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