Jailed Hungarian trucker Karoly Borsos tried to smuggle 3m illegal cigarettes into Hull
A HUNGARIAN lorry driver was caught trying to smuggle almost three million illegal cigarettes into Hull. Karoly Borsos, 61, was the courier for a gang trying to smuggle £665,108 of tobacco into the UK. Border Force officers searched his lorry at King George Dock after he arrived in the city on a ferry from Rotterdam.
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