Man charged with smuggling 4.6 million cigarettes into Newhaven (From The Argus)
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Man charged with smuggling 4.6 million cigarettes into Newhaven
9:35am Friday 25th February 2011 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter
A man has appeared in court charged with smuggling 4.6 million cigarettes into Newhaven Ferry Port.
Alain Corominas Pons, 44, is charged with evading around £714,000 in duty tax when the illicit load was smuggled into the UK four years ago.
Corominas Pons, a Spanish lorry driver, appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court yesterday where he was remanded in custody until March 3 to appear at crown court.
The 4,620,000 Lambert and Butler brand cigarettes were discovered by HM Revenue & Customs officers in a lorry that arrived by ferry from Dieppe, France.
The cigarettes have been burned at a power station to fuel the National Grid.
