{"id":616055,"date":"2026-09-06T07:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616055\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:28:45","slug":"over-e11m-worth-of-cigarettes-seized-at-dublin-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/616055\/","title":{"rendered":"Over \u20ac11m worth of cigarettes seized at Dublin Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over \u20ac11 million worth of cigarettes have been seized at Dublin Port.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 million smuggled cigarettes branded &#8216;The King&#8217; were detected by Revenue officers following routine risk profiling.<\/p>\n<p>They were discovered in a consignment declared as mattresses after a trailer, which arrived on a vessel from Rotterdam, had been searched.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue said the estimated value of the cigarettes is over \u20ac11.3m, representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of over \u20ac8.9m.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure is part of Revenue\u2019s ongoing operations targeting the shadow economy and the supply and sale of illegal tobacco products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over \u20ac11 million worth of cigarettes have been seized at Dublin Port. The 12 million smuggled cigarettes branded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-616055","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\/616055","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=616055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}