Heavy smoker’ is caught smuggling 33,000 cigarettes

A “heavy smoker” caught smuggling 33,000 cigarettes into Scotland has been ordered to pay more than £9,000 in duties.

Iwona Monica Kowal was caught with contraband cigarettes hidden in her baggage on three separate occasions at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports in 2013.

The 44-year-old, from Dundee, admitted trying to avoid paying excise duty.

A civil order was made for recovery of the £9,240, and a sheriff sentenced Kowal to 200 hours of unpaid work.

The English student was first caught with 15,800 contraband cigarettes at Glasgow Airport on 8 April, 2013, as she flew back from Poland.

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