Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city Three men who smuggled more than 20 million illegal cigarettes into the UK have been jailed.
Macauley Glossop, from Salford, and Robert McLean and Simon Lay, both from Birmingham, conspired to evade £6m of excise duty on the cigarettes.
Lay and Glossop were arrested in May 2018 after Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs RC investigators watched them load two million cigarettes onto a lorry at a Birmingham industrial estate. READ MORE:The rules around wearing face masks from July 19 as restrictions eased Lay was later stopped in the lorry by police on the M6 motorway.
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