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Man (50s) arrested after €2.5 million worth of cocaine seized at Rosslare Europort

The drugs were discovered when a truck which had disembarked a ferry was stopped and searched.

A MAN HAS been arrested after cocaine worth over €2.5 million was seized by Revenue officers at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford.

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.

The 36kgs of suspected cocaine is worth almost €2,530,000, according to Revenue.

The arrested man, aged in his 50s, is currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, at a Garda station in Co Wexford.

A garda spokesperson said that investigations into the matter are ongoing.

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