Nearly 11 million illegal cigarettes have been seized in a joint operation at Belfast Port - but nobody has been arrested.
The dodgy ciggies, worth an estimated £5.3million according to HM Revenue and Customs, were picked up in packed boxes inside a container that had been scanned by Border Force.
Speaking about the seizure, which happened on June 20, Lucie Irving of HMRC said: “Cheap cigarettes come at a cost as they often fund organised crime and other illegal activity that causes real harm to our communities, such as drugs, guns and human trafficking.
