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Author: Francis Farragher
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A SECOND major discovery of illegal drugs has been made at the premises of a multinational company on the east side of Galway City – with €600,000 worth of cannabis resin found in a storage area.
Gardai have confirmed the discovery of the drugs on Friday last which had been delivered to the company – possibly some weeks before that.
Towards the end of last November, cannabis resin, estimated to be worth in the region of €260,000, was discovered on the same premises, with a man in his late twenties-early thirties arrested and questioned under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act, 1996.
A follow-up search at this man’s house also resulted in the discovery of a smaller amount of drugs – he is understood to have been an employee of the company and he has since been suspended.
Gardaí confirmed at the time that a file in relation to the arrest and illegal drugs discovery had been forwarded to the DPP.
On last Friday morning, January 16th, an employee of the company on a routine check of imported goods, discovered 30 kilograms of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of €600,000.
Gardaí were immediately notified and the drugs were seized, with samples forwarded to the National Forensic Laboratory in Dublin for analysis.
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