Revenue seized cigarettes and alcohol worth a combined total of €158,000 in the last week alone.
It comes as part of separate operations at Rosslare Europort and North County Dublin, via Dublin Airport.
81,000 cigarettes, with an estimated retail value of €64,000, and approximately 23,600 litres of beer, worth more than €94,000, were seized by Revenue as part of two separate investigations over the last week.
The first seizure took place at Rosslare Europort on Friday, October 14, as a result of routine profiling.
Officers from Revenue seized €94,000 worth of alcohol following a search of an unaccompanied trailer, which had travelled from France.
It represents a potential loss to the Exchequer of over €44,000.
A statement from Revenue said: “Revenue officers seized approximately 23,600 litres of beer at Rosslare Europort following the search of an unaccompanied trailer that had arrived on a ferry from Dunkirk, France.
“The smuggled alcohol had an estimated retail value of more than €94,000, representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of over €44,000.”
In a separate incident on Wednesday, October 19, Revenue officers seized 81,000 cigarettes as a result of an intelligence-led operation in Dublin.
The cigarettes, worth €64,000, were discovered in cargo consignments that had arrived at Dublin Airport and in a vehicle that was searched in North County Dublin.
The seizure represented a potential loss of €50,000 to the Exchequer.
The statement continued: “Yesterday, as a result of an intelligence-led operation, Revenue officers seized over 81,000 cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €64,000, representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of approximately €50,000.
“The illegal cigarettes, branded ‘Marlboro Gold’ and ‘L&M’, were discovered in two air cargo consignments declared as ‘air beds’, that had arrived at Dublin Airport from Germany and in a vehicle that was subsequently searched in North County Dublin.”
A man in his 30s was questioned following the event, with investigations into both incidents ongoing.
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