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A lorry driver who was caught at Dover trying to smuggle tobacco into the country underneath metal and plastic pipes is behind bars. Marcin Nowak, from Poland, has been jailed for ten months after Border Force officers found him with 840 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in black bags buried under pipes on the floor of his lorry at Dover Easter Docks on November 25. HM Revenue and Customs estimated the excise duty evaded was more than ?160,000.
Border Force officers found the hidden tobacco on the floor of the lorry. Picture: HM Revenue and Customs
The 51-year-old pleaded guilty to fraudulent evasion of excise duty at Maidstone Crown Court yesterday (Friday, December 23) where he was given the prison sentence. HMRC’s assistant director of the Fraud Investigation Service, Alan Tully, said: “Nowak thought he was onto a good thing by importing illegal tobacco and that he wouldn’t be discovered. But the work of HMRC investigators and Border Force colleagues means he is now paying for his crime.”
Read more: Fire service shuts off one lane of Dover High Street after a chunk of render falls from a building[2] 
The tobacco was tightly packed under the huge pipes.
Picture: HM Revenue and Customs
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