Four Irish men with €39k in cash stopped boarding flight to New York

Four Irish men were stopped and questioned and €29,350 in euros and dollars were seized at Dublin Airport yesterday.

The males, aged between 18 and 50, were boarding a flight to New York.

It was a joint operation by Revenue officers and US Customs and Border Protection.

Separately, €20,650 was seized when two males, a Belgian national aged 40 years and a 34 year old Romanian, who arrived together on a flight from Amsterdam, were stopped and questioned following routine profiling.

Investigations into the seizures are ongoing.

Under the law, any quantity of cash in excess of €1,000 found by a Revenue Officer that is suspected to be the proceeds of, or intended for use in, criminal activity can be seized.

Revenue seizes cash that is suspected to be directly or indirectly linked to criminality, in order to identify, target and tackle tax evasion, fraud, and money laundering.