The gang were caught stashing the hooky goods on a Lincolnshire farm
A gang caught stashing millions of counterfeit cigarettes worth more than £1.8m at a Lincolnshire farm have been handed prison sentences totalling 26 years.
The group were convicted of conspiracy to evade excise duty following a four-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court after seized Richmond cigarettes were tested and found to be counterfeit.Officers from HM Revenue and Customs arrested Marcin Kopec, 44, and Wojciech Rymarczuk, 46, as they unloaded three large shipping containers at the farm in June 2019.
A sixth gang member, 32-year-old Ihtesham Khalid, was linked to the smuggling operation through surveillance, phone calls and text messages. Wojciech Rymarczuk, Marcin Kopec, and Tomasz Skubis did not attend the trial and were convicted and sentenced in absence to a total of 16-and-a-half years. Warrants have been issued for their arrest.
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