Cig smuggler gets sentence; Local briefs.A MAN who hid nearly 'm illegal cigarettes in container units on a Barnsley industrial estate has been handed a 32-week jail term, suspended for 12 months. Simon Milner, 43, of Gilroyd, Barnsley, was convicted of smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain 490,000 cigarettes - evading tax of pounds 80,000. Milner, who had denied the charges, runs a limousine company, and was arrested in March 2008 after a search of units on the Wakefield Road Industrial Estate by officers from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (UK) HMRC Health Management Research Center (University of Michigan) HMRC Helicopter Multi-Role Computer HMRC Hierarchical Maximal Ratio Combining ) recovered 490,000 mixed brand cigarettes. |
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