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Four arrests after cannabis worth €8.5m seized
Four men have been arrested after cannabis with an estimated street value of €8.5m (£7.1m) was seized by gardaí (Irish police) following a search of business premises in Dublin.
Shortly after15:00 local time, gardaí intercepted two vehicles and carried out a planned search in the Ballymount area of Tallaght, where they found 429kg (946lb) of the drug.
Four men, aged 31, 45, 52 and 58, were arrested for facilitating and enhancing a criminal organisation to commit drug trafficking offences.
They are being held at Garda stations in the Dublin area.
Assistant Commissioner Justin Kelly said: “This operation is another example of our commitment to target the enablers and facilitators of global drug trafficking networks and our ongoing efforts to make Ireland a difficult environment for them to operate in.”
The seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy.
Another discovery of approximately €1.976m (£1.6m) of illegal tablets was seized by gardaí following searches on a number of properties in Dublin on Friday. Zopiclone and Alprazolam tablets and approximately €4,500 cash were found during the search in five different areas of Dublin.
Two men, aged in their 50s and 30s, have both been charged.
[BBC]
