Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy

Suspended sentence for involvement in £110,000 tobacco smuggling operation

April 6, 2016 by admin News 0 comments

A local man and a juvenile have been sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for a year, for being involved in a £110,000 illegal tobacco operation.
19-year-old Shane Soiza and a 16-year-old co-defendant were also fined £1,500 each. Their lawyers described the defendants as “foot soldiers”, hired to wrap the tobacco cartoans ready for exportation.
The RGP seized the tobacco from a store within Francis Building in February.
 

http://www.gbc.gi/news/suspended-sentence-involvement-110000-tobacco-smuggling-operation-31896

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