{"id":502541,"date":"2026-06-16T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502541\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:28:11","slug":"drugs-and-contraband-worth-e722000-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502541\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs and contraband worth \u20ac722,000 seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue officers have seized drugs and contraband worth over \u20ac722,000 during several operations in Dublin, the midlands and Rosslare Europort in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Among the drugs seized was 9.9kg of ketamine with an estimated value of \u20ac598,100.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue said one thousand weapons accessories and \u20ac22,380 cash were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also seized tobacco products with a value of \u20ac42,800, butane oil with a value of \u20ac33,200 and various other illicit drugs with a value of \u20ac5,100.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Revenue said that 42 counterfeit items valued at around \u20ac17,100 were seized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seized tobacco and cigarettes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/002486ef-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nTobacco and cigarettes valued at \u20ac42,800 were seized by Revenue over the past week<\/p>\n<p>Revenue said the illicit drugs seizures were made as a result of risk profiling with assistance of detector dog Ciara.<\/p>\n<p>The parcels originated from the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, France, Uganda and India, and were destined for various addresses nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into all seizures are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue said that the seizures are part of Revenue&#8217;s ongoing operations targeting smuggling and shadow economy activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revenue officers have seized drugs and contraband worth over \u20ac722,000 during several operations in Dublin, the midlands and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-502541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}