Revenue officials seized over 3 million cigarettes worth more than €2.6m at Dublin Port yesterday.
The huge haul was discovered at Dublin Port when Revenue officers checked a truck that had originated from Belgium. The smuggled cigarettes, branded ‘Lambert & Butler’, were discovered concealed and labelled as 'orange juice.'
Reveunue officers used a special mobile x-ray scanner, which revealed the illegal contents in the truck. A Revenue spokesman confirmed that a man in his 20s has been questioned in relation to the massive haul.
