From: The Northern Echo
Hannah Chapman, Assistant News Editor
A FRAUDSTER who set up a home with kitchen, bedroom and bathroom in a unit on an industrial estate so he could distribute illicit cigarettes, tobacco and alcohol has been jailed for more than two years.
Rolex-wearing Jaafar Mousa Mohammad Jaafar, of Adams Terrace, Consett, lived for three years on the site in Gateshead, despite owning a home in County Durham and land in Northumberland.
The 64-year-old was caretaker and distributor for the scam, and when customs officers searched the unit on Clockmill Road in December 2013, they seized over 1.5 million cigarettes, three tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco and 18,000 litres of beer, wine and spirits.
