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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Sara Nichol & Laura Sharman

Airline passenger smuggled 83,000 cigarettes into UK avoiding £28,000 duty tax bill

A plane passenger was caught at the airport trying to smuggle more than 83,000 cigarettes into Britain.

Samuel Onyemenam, 50, was stopped while carrying luggage as he entered Newcastle International Airport on flight from Nigeria via Germany.

Officers from Border Force X-rayed three of his suitcases and found that two of them were filled with cigarettes.

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