Drugs worth more than €500,000 have been in Dublin Airport over the last ten days.
Revenue said this morning that Customs officers also seized sterling cash amounting to €248,000 and 354,000 contraband cigarettes.
In an operation on Monday 90,000 cigarettes worth almost €30,000 were seized. The cigarettes had arrived from the Czech capital Prague, described as machine parts.
Two Lithuanian nationals were questioned and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Other seizures include two air pistols and 1,500 tubs of prescription medicines.
In one operation on August 17th, involving the US Customs & Immigration Service, 161 kilograms of the root drug Khat were seized. The drugs were destined for the US and valued at approximately €322,000. The drugs were discovered in the luggage of two British women, aged 26 and 21, who were arrested and charged.
In another operation on August 24th, a 39-year-old Dutch man was profiled on his arrival from Dusseldorf. He was detained and found to have swallowed almost one kilogram of cocaine valued at €63,000.
The following day, drug dog "Thatcher" found one kilogram of cannabis resin, valued at approximately €7,000, on a 34-year-old Irish man who had arrived from Amsterdam.
In total, six people have been arrested and charged with drugs offences, Revenue said in a statement.
On Saturday, Customs officers a 61-year-old Dutch man was found to be carrying Stg£167,420 in his hand luggage. It was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
On Sunday, a Dutch woman and her daughter, who had arrived from Dusseldorf, were brought to Beaumont hospital and x-rayed after Customs became suspicious.
The daughter (26) had approximately 1/2 kilogram of cocaine concealed internally. Her 44 year-old mother had approximately 1 kilogram of cocaine concealed internally. Both were arrested and charged. The drugs were valued at approximately €105,000.
Revenue says Customs seizures result from intelligence, knowledge of international trends, flight and passenger profiling techniques.
