Revenue officers seized some 36kgs of cocaine, with an estimated street value of almost €2,530,000, at Rosslare Europort on Friday morning.
The drugs were discovered as a result of risk profiling, when a freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from Dunkirk, France, was stopped and searched.
A man in his 50s was subsequently arrested by gardaí and is currently detained, under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act, at a Garda station in County Wexford.
This seizure was part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting organised crime groups and the importation, sale and supply of illegal drugs.
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Revenue asked that businesses, or members of the public, who have any information regarding smuggling, to contact Revenue in confidence on 1800 295 295.
The Garda said investigations are ongoing.
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