A gang who smuggled more than 117 million illegal cigarettes into the UK and cheated the taxman out of £36million were caught out by the EncroChat hack.
The Rochdale-based gang smuggled the illicit cigarettes into the country on a 'massive scale', hiding them in lorries. They also sent millions of pounds worth of cash - from selling the cigarettes - out of the UK in the same way to Poland to a mysterious figure referred to as 'Big Boss'. READ MORE : Vile sexual predator raped stranger as she tried to get home after night out in Gay Village Hazhar Mohammad-Pani, 31, and Hubert Smolarek, 41, were both jailed for more than seven years. "Although quite short lived, the offending in this case was on a massive scale and it was highly
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