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 Post subject: UK customs seize Seven Million Cigarettes Found In Lorry
PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:24 pm 
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An investigation has been launched after seven million cigarettes were illegally imported into Britain.

Border officials found the cache in a freezer unit on a lorry at Newhaven ferry port in East Sussex.

The vehicle had travelled from Dieppe in France.

It is thought the Treasury would have lost £1.3m in tax if the cigarettes had been sold on the black market.

The 42-year-old lorry driver from Lanarkshire has been arrested and bailed until July.

The cigarettes will be burned at a power station to fuel the National Grid while inquiries continue, a HMRC spokesman said.

Story courtesy Sky News read here
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Perhaps he was a heavy smoker :lol:
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nicotine replacment patches might help him stay out of trouble :)

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Paul wrote:
An investigation has been launched after seven million cigarettes were illegally imported into Britain.

Border officials found the cache in a freezer unit on a lorry at Newhaven ferry port in East Sussex.

The vehicle had travelled from Dieppe in France.

It is thought the Treasury would have lost £1.3m in tax if the cigarettes had been sold on the black market.

The 42-year-old lorry driver from Lanarkshire has been arrested and bailed until July.

The cigarettes will be burned at a power station to fuel the National Grid while inquiries continue, a HMRC spokesman said.

Story courtesy Sky News read here

£1.3m ?? hmmm theyd soon compensate for that if they started Road Taxing foreign trucks at point of entry!
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