Sample of the Counterfeit items seized – Image Credit Revenue Services
Revenue officials have seized €42,750 during a search operation with Garda under warrant at a location in south county Tipperary. Separately, tobacco and alcohol products with an estimated value of almost €14,000, representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of over €10,400, were seized in various operations in the Midlands, Tipperary, and Wexford.
Revenue officers were granted a 3-month detention order, in respect of the cash, by Judge Brian O’Shea at Clonmel District Court.
The seizure is part of a larger operation that resulted in the seizure of contraband with an estimated value of €355,000 in various operations in Dublin, the Midlands, Rosslare Europort and Tipperary which included over 5.4kg of herbal cannabis, with an estimated value of €108,600, over 5,200 mixed tablets, with an estimated value of almost €10,300, the €42,750 in cash and 561 counterfeit items, with an estimated value of €178,000.
