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REVENUE OFFICERS IN Cork with the help of Marley and Harvey the sniffer dogs seized cash, unstamped cigarettes, and a car, when they conducted a number of searches under warrant at premises on the north side of Cork city.
Revenue officers seized €15,015 which is suspected to be the proceeds of, or intended for use in, criminal activity, and was seized in accordance with proceeds of crime legislation.
A 2011 Skoda Octavia and 8,200 unstamped cigarettes, representing an estimated loss of to the Exchequer of €3,900, were also seized.
Revenue detector dogs Harvey and Marley were both deployed in the operation, during which the cash and unstamped cigarettes were found concealed in furniture and elsewhere at a number of the premises.
A Revenue spokeswoman said: “Officers questioned an Irish man in his 60s, a Moroccan man in his 30s and a Ukrainian woman in her 50s and files are being prepared with a view to prosecution.
“Most people pay the right amount of tax and duty. If you know someone is evading tax or involved in smuggling, report it. Contact Revenue’s Confidential Freephone 1800 295 295.”
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Strikes me as a little odd reporting sentences as a combination. It’s as if article is attempting to make their punishment out to be more severe than it actually is.
When you consider the fact that prisoners very often only serve about half of their sentences the headline might be more accurately written as
“Three brothers will spend roughly 3-4 years each in prison after string of robberies”
@Derek Murphy: and after effectively ensuring that severall sma towns and villages will no longer have ATMs.
Irish Judges: robbing banks?? 20 years!!
Also Irish Judges: se.x.ually assualted your own kids for a decade? Meh.. 5 years. Out in 3.
@Rob Gale: It’s actually 20 years combined.
@Hannah: They gave someone 30 years for kidnapping a wealthy business man. But do it to a child for their whole life and you get a suspended sentence. It’s shocking really. If we can give large sentences like that for these crimes how can they justify not giving them for child abuse?
@Rob Gale: neither sentence is anywhere near enough, joke
@Jonathan Barr: I fully agree with you.
We seriously need more prison spaces in this country.
@Chris Mc: why not export our prisoners to countries willing to take them. Who says they have to be imprisoned here ? The cost of a prisoner per year in ireland is easily in excess of 100k. Put that out to tender. The Chinese might house them for 10k per year. Going to prison might not be seen as so cushy then…..
Bit of a joke headline – 20 year combined. That means nothing – the two longest sentences were 8 yrs 9 months, with one year suspended. That means about 5 years and 10 months with remission! Very dishonest journalism!
@Ciaran Leonard: actually that would be 6 years and 6 months with standard remission
Is the €790,000 nicely tucked away for the release in a couple of years?
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