Customs smash smuggling ring run through Newcastle Airport
Posted on October 23rd, 2009
A unique smuggling gang has been smashed in the UK. The reason the gang were unique is that they never left the country. They smuggled cigarettes into Newcastle International Airport without actually flying out of the country. The gang would buy cheap tickets on budget airlines out of Newcastle Airport and go through customs with empty suitcases.
Once through security they would fill the empty suitcases with cigarettes from duty free. Then instead of boarding a flight they would slip back security and make off with the haul of cheap cigarettes and sell them on the black market.
40 year old Christopher Campbell has been charged after customs got wise to the scam and used surveillance to capture the gang and prosecute.
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