From: Bangkok Post
Fugitive said to be mastermind of £2-million caper
WRITER: WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM
A British fugitive who allegedly masterminded a cigarette-smuggling ring that cost the UK government £2 million in lost tax revenue in 2008 was captured in Hua Hin on Wednesday.
Paul Joyce, of Northumberland in northeast England, was apprehended by Special Branch Police officers at a parking lot at the Sea-Cret Hua Hin hotel in the Prachuap Khiri Khan province resort town.
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The Special Branch Police did not say when he entered Thailand, but it could have been in 2008, when 10 alleged accomplices were caught by UK customs officials smuggling 10 million black-market cigarettes…
