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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Ramadan Brothers Remain In Custody After Hearing
From: The Dispatch
OCEAN CITY — Two local residents indicted by a New York grand jury in May for allegedly being the ringleader and enterprise treasurer of a vast cigarette smuggling and money laundering operation remain behind bars this week after preliminary hearings in King’s County New York Supreme Court on Monday.
“wet, mouldy and smells like manure, but sells because it’s cheap”
From: Guardian
Retford: £26m cigarette smuggling gang behind bars
By Court Reporter
A gang of Retford smugglers, who described their tobacco as ‘wet, mouldy and smells like manure, but sells because it’s cheap’, is behind bars after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) smashed their £26 million criminal operation.
The plot, which flooded the north of England with more than 150 million cigarettes and two tonnes of low quality tobacco, was masterminded by Doncaster men Daniel Harty and Billy-Jo Wall.
They were aided by brothers William and Samual Tomlinson, Ben Kirk, Peter Lawrence and Jonathan Ellis all from Retford and John Sabin from Doncaster after they smuggled cigarettes and tobacco into the UK.
Business Owners: Cigarette Smuggling Hurts Small Shops
From: WBOC 16 Delmarva’s News Leader
By Denise Sawyer
OCEAN CITY, Md.- Beth Hall, of Ocean City, helps out at the Smoke Ring in Ocean City. Smoke Ring is a beach-area tobacco shop that is owned and operated by locals. But Hall believes staying in business is tough.
“We’re actually trying to stay alive. You know we are trying to stay alive and in business. It’s very difficult.”
That’s because Hall believes “crooks” make it hard for “honest” businesses, like Smoke Ring, to make money.
Terrorist Group Makes More than €90 million/year From Contraband Cigarettese
Editor’s Note
From: Irish Mirror
Bought in a Dublin house for €20.. made in filthy Chinese sweatshops.. and handing gangs like the RIRA €90m
We expose the multi-million cigarette smuggling racket that’s making gangs a fortune
The Irish Mirror today reveals the secret multi-million euro cigarette smuggling racket that touches every city, town and village in Ireland.
Our investigation into the illegal trade has found cheap smokes from China, Belarus and Vietnam are now readily available everywhere – and line the pockets of the Real IRA and other criminal gangs.
Ramadans To Appear In Court
From: The Dispatch
By News Editor, Shawn J. Soper
OCEAN CITY — Two local residents, indicted by a New York grand jury in May for allegedly being the ringleader and enterprise treasurer of a vast cigarette smuggling and money laundering operation with possible links to terrorism, are scheduled to be back in court Monday for the next step in what will likely be a lengthy legal process.
