Seized alcohol, drugs and tobacco

dense

My theory is that the above goods are kept and then redistributed by those who seize them rather than being verifiably witnessed as being destroyed.

elperello

Definitely in the old days when poitin makers were being raided all the stuff didn't go down the drain. Well not before going through a bladder anyway.

Fuzzy Clam

dense wrote: »

My theory is that the above goods are kept and then redistributed by those who seize them rather than being verifiably witnessed as being destroyed.

Probably did happen.
Fireworks as well.

Overheal

Not really a CT so much as a point of fact.

dense

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Probably did happen.
Fireworks as well.

Probably does happen.

Are there any records of them being destroyed???

Hector Bellend

It's bound to have happened.

Look, whoever handles this stuff is human too. If there is an opportunity to make a quick buck on the side without getting caught then it's bound to have happened.

CWF

Nothing groundbreaking there

jimmycrackcorm

Seeing as it has been already verified that money either seized or kept as evidence in Garda stations has gone missing, then it can definitely be said that some seized goods will have suffered the same fate.

_Brian

When I was in college in Dundalk, for a short time I was in digs next door to a customs agent.
When his garage door was open you could see boxes of booze and cigs on the floor, you’d see him bringing them home and people calling to collect them.

Overheal

_Brian wrote: »

When I was in college in Dundalk, for a short time I was in digs next door to a customs agent.
When his garage door was open you could see boxes of booze and cigs on the floor, you’d see him bringing them home and people calling to collect them.

Seems like it defeats the role of a customs agent, if the goods end up disrupting the market for regulated goods in the end anyway

dense

Overheal wrote: »

Seems like it defeats the role of a customs agent, if the goods end up disrupting the market for regulated goods in the end anyway

Doesn't seem like they're terribly interested in the market side of things.

Customs and Excise defeat their role themselves if there's no public record of the destruction of the goods they've seized.

There is no record is there?

Staplor

dense wrote: »

Doesn't seem like they're terribly interested in the market side of things.

Customs and Excise defeat their role themselves if there's no public record of the destruction of the goods they've seized.

There is no record is there?

I believe there is a record of what was destroyed, not seized

Emme

I wonder do they destroy all the blue tablets they get coming in through the black market? I guess they eventually get destroyed in some kind of "explosion"