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Man jailed for smuggling millions of cigarettes through Channel port

Posted by editor on Oct 25, 2008 - 12:09 AM
Filed under: Crime, News

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A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to smuggle more than four million cigarettes into the country hidden in boxes of biscuits.

Alexander Kindred, 55, from Perth in Scotland, was arrested after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers intercepted him at Dover docks on April 26 last year.

They discovered 4,229,200 cigarettes among the crates of biscuits, which he claimed had been loaded into the vehicle in Germany to be transported to the UK.
 


 

 

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