Saturday 4th September 2010
Barnsley streets safer thanks to illegal cigs raid
A group of illegal tobacco traders from Barnsley has been convicted after being caught with over 2-million illegal cigarettes destined for the local market.
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Saturday 4th September 2010
HMRC stop 10-million illegal cigarettes hitting Merseyside streets
Five Merseyside men have been arrested and almost 10-million illegal cigarettes seized by officers from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Saturday 4th September 2010
Safer streets in Gateshead following ‘tab-house’ raid
Police and trading standards have seized hundreds of counterfeit cigarettes and packets of tobacco following a raid on two homes on Gateshead’s Springwell Estate.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Manchester ‘snowmen’ cigarette smugglers jailed
Two Manchester men who pretended to import Christmas snowmen in a plot to smuggle nine million cigarettes into the UK, have been jailed. The cigarettes had a potential tax loss of over £1.4 million.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Jail sentance for Bolton men caught selling cheap cigs
Four men have been given suspended jail sentences after being caught selling illegal cigarettes at a Bolton market.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Father and son team ‘lose everything’ after selling illegal tobacco
A father and son team from Sunderland has been sentenced after selling illegal tobacco and alcohol from their city centre store.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Illegal vodka and tobacco gang are given 56 years
Six members of a gang who used high-tech equipment to turn out 24 fake bottles of vodka a minute, plus large quantities of hand rolling tobacco, were jailed at Southwark Crown Court today for more than 56 years.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Former football chief scores tax fraud own goal
A former football club chief executive has been jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting to not paying duty on £4.5m-worth of cigarettes.
Saturday 4th September 2010
Cigarette smuggling gang put behind bars
A Lancashire gang who imported over two million contraband cigarettes into the country packed inside wheelie bins has been jailed for a total of almost nine-years.
Friday 4th June 2010
Cigarette smuggling scam is stubbed out
A gang of cigarette smugglers have been jailed after bringing almost 200,000 illegal cigarettes through Newcastle Airport.
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