{"id":102,"date":"2018-03-15T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-03-15T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:21:11","slug":"illegal-cigarette-factory-found-in-louth-highlights-growing-market-for-criminal-gangs-say-concerned-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/illegal-cigarette-factory-found-in-louth-highlights-growing-market-for-criminal-gangs-say-concerned-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal cigarette factory found in Louth highlights growing market for criminal gangs, say concerned retailers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11 people have been arrested after an illegal cigarette production factory was discovered by Garda\u00ed and Revenue in Louth today. 25 million illegal cigarettes were discovered, along with over 40 tonnes of tobacco, as well as production and packaging equipment estimated to have cost the Exchequer \u20ac12 million.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers Against Smuggling\u2019s (RAS) Leinster spokesperson Benny Gilsenan commented on the breaking reports today \u201cThe uncovering of the illegal cigarette factory run by criminals highlights the growing market in Ireland for cheap illicit tobacco products all the while successive Governments increase the price of legal cigarettes that legitimate and tax paying retailers like myself sell. It is also striking that this illegal factory producing branded packs at a time when retailers are receiving plain packs legitimate retailers<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the Government stop increasing excise and focus on the issue and give consideration to the impact the illicit trade is having on small retailers who are already struggling to maintain business and keep on current employees. RAS would like to thank an Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and Revenue for all their hard work but unfortunately while our Government continues to ignore the grave concerns of the declining small retailer, there will only be more illegal cigarette and alcohol factories found across the State\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 March 2018 11 people have been arrested after an illegal cigarette production factory was discovered by Garda\u00ed and Revenue in Louth today. 25 million illegal cigarettes were discovered, along with over 40 tonnes of tobacco, as well as production and packaging equipment estimated to have cost the Exchequer \u20ac12 million. Retailers Against Smuggling\u2019s (RAS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,38,39],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigarette-smuggling","tag-benny-gilsenan","tag-illegal-cigarette-factory","tag-ras"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.retailersagainstsmuggling.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}