Student Smuggled 30,000 Cigarettes
A Portsmouth student who smuggled more than 30,000 cigarettes into the country has been handed an 18 week jail sentence. Customs officers also found almost 4 thousand pounds hidden under Jielong Xiao’s bedside table. Xiao, a Chinese national studying in the UK, smuggled cigarettes into the UK through the post from China, Singapore and Sweden, in packages labelled ‘plastic toys’ or ‘shoes’, evading excise duty and VAT of £9,655.
http://www.wave105.com/news/local/student-smuggled-30-000-cigarettes/
Related Posts
Two Held For Smuggling Liquor From Telangana To Andhra
Krishna (Andhra Pradesh) , September 1 (ANI): Police officials have arrested two...
Gold worth ₹3.75 crore seized at Calicut Airport
Continuing with its seizure, the Customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) recovered...
Chinese man arrested at Nepal airport with 1kg of gold hidden up his backside
Eagle-eyed customs officers at Nepal’s Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport...
EXCLUSIVE: How British tourists buying counterfeit handbags in Dubai are funding Kim Jong-un’s nuclear missile program
British tourists have been warned against buying counterfeit luxury goods in...