From: BT
A furniture importer used hollow statues of Buddha to smuggle more than 100,000 illicit cigarettes into the UK.
A furniture importer used hollow statues of Buddha to smuggle more than 100,000 illicit cigarettes into the UK.
James Reber, 51, of Second Avenue, Brighton, East Sussex, was sentenced to a 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years after pleading guilty at Luton Crown Court to evading tax and duty of £31,000 due on the cigarettes which were discovered by Border Officers at Southampton Port in June 2013.
