Cigarette smuggler told to pay £91,000
A smuggler has been ordered to pay more than £91,000 for illegally transporting cigarettes through Plymouth Airport.
Simon Evans, aged 50, was jailed last year for evading excise duty on the duty-free cigarettes he bought at Bristol Airport, using a fake international boarding pass.
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He would then fly to Plymouth, and take the goods back home to Cardiff by train.
In July, he was jailed for 12 months.
Now Evans has been told to pay more than £91,000 or face another 15 months in prison.
He admitted last year to smuggling duty-free goods 52 times, evading an estimated £70,000 in excise duty.
Evans was given a confiscation order for his criminal benefit of £91,608.44 and ordered to pay costs of £765.
He now has six months to pay in full.
3 Comments
by nick113
Friday, February 10 2012, 11:19AM
“What a daft plan. No-one would fly from Bristol to Plymouth; by the time you've checked in and hung around waiting for the flight you could have driven there. He would have drawn attention to himself before he even started buying heaps of baccy.”
by 10thattempt
Friday, February 10 2012, 10:33AM
“PCC should give him a job - he's probably the only person alive who can turn a profit from Plymouth airport.”
by renegade2009
Friday, February 10 2012, 10:28AM
“well his trips went well but so many around doing it and making a tidy profit ,,, only the small fish gets caught
bring down baccy here and no one will need to go and get cheaper stuff elsewhere
maybe this guy was a heavy smoker , and needed it all”