Student smuggled 33,800 cigarettes from Poland through Scots airports
A student caught smuggling 33,800 cigarettes into Scotland from Poland claimed they were for her and her partner. Iwona Monica Kowal, a student from Dundee, was caught on three separate occasions by UK Border Agency staff after flying from Poland into Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports.
She was caught with a total of 33,800 cigarettes stuffed into her baggage, Paisley Sheriff Court heard. The Excise Duty on the haul would have been £9241.
Depute fiscal Frank Clarke said that after being intercepted carrying 15,800 contraband cigarettes Kowal was subsequently quizzed by officers of HM Revenue & Customs as she flew into Glasgow Airport on April 8, 2013.
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