Summary
WHAT do you do for a living? Perhaps you're a teacher, a farmer, a factory worker, a parttime criminal? Most people recoil from that last job description, but if you have ever bought DVDs or cigarettes from a dodgy man on a street corner, or if you have just stocked up on illegal rockets and fireworks for Hallowe'en, then I'm sorry, but you are actually contributing to and fuelling the fire of criminality in this country.
Sounds harsh, doesn't it? But if you are part of the network that supports the smugglers then you are part of the problem.See the full content of this document
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The Gangs Who Aim to Turn All of Us Into Criminals ; Buy Those Cheap Dvds and Cigarettes and You Buy Into a Society Run by Rapists and Gangsters, Says Anthony Galvin [Eire Region]
And a problem it certainly is. This year the Revenue Commissioners estimate that smuggling of cigarettes alone will cost the State well over half a billion euro in lost duty.
That is a huge hit in a time of recession.Meanwhile the smugglers continue to make a fortune. In the battle against drugs gardai hope, in a good year, t...See the full content of this document
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