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Express & Star 16 Aug 10
Determined thieves burrowed their way through the roof of a Bloxwich newsagent from an upstairs flat, stealing hundreds of pounds worth of cigarettes.
Raiders are believed to have broken in to the flat above Rani News and ripped up the floorboards, before sliding through the hole into the shop…
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Chris Henwood B’ham Mail 25 Feb 10
More than 400,000 smuggled cigarettes have been seized from an industrial unit in Aldridge in a raid by officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). They also confiscated two commercial vehicles…
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Express & Star 18 Feb 10
Almost 200,000 illegal cigarettes have been uncovered following raids in the Black Country and Birmingham including on Thursday when 9,550 mixed brand cigarettes were seized from a shop in Caldmore Green in Walsall…
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The YamYam 4 Feb 10
A businessman who stored over half a million illegally imported cigarettes at his Bloxwich warehouse has avoided a custodial jail sentence.
Alex Rolls, 29, of Rochcester Croft was handed a 32 week sentence suspended for two years at Wolverhampton Crown Court. He was also ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work and pay £5,000 in costs.
In October last year, police were led to The Bed Warehouse in Bloxwich by an anonymous tip off where they found 57 pallets of Gold Classics cigarettes destined to be sold on the black market. The cigarettes had been imported from overseas and so over £89,000 in customs duty should have been paid.
Mr Rolls initially denied any knowledge of the contents of the boxes and claimed he was storing the pallets as part of a business venture but eventually admitted evasion of cigarette duty. The warehouse has closed
down and Mr Rolls in now unemployed.
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Adam Aspinall Mercury 6 Dec 09
Toxic cigarettes smuggled into Britain from Russia are being sold to Midland school children for as little as forty pence a packet. The dangerous bootlegs, branded with the name Jin Ling, are twice as strong as normal fags and could contain industrial chemicals – including asbestos-lined Chinese drywall…
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Birmingham Post 6 May 09
Smokers are being warned they may be inhaling anything from animal droppings to faeces if they buy counterfeit cigarettes…