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Booze ruse driver and haulier jailed
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• A haulier and his driver were jailed last week for taking part in a booze diversion scam that cost the Treasury nearly ElOm (CM 27 March-2 April).
Haulier John Dennis of St Johns Drive, Marchwood, Hampshire was sentenced to four years and his driver Paul Mead of Woodside Close, Marchwood, received a 33-month sentence.
Both men were involved in a nine-man gang who were found guilty at Southampton Crown Court of taking part in a fraud centred around a bonded warehouse In Southampton between September 2000 and March 2001.
False paperwork found by Customs showed that spirits were
being moved from Southern Bond to other bonded warehouses in Birkenhead and Southern Ireland.
Duty is payable on spirits leaving a bonded warehouse unless they are being exported outside the EU or transferred to another bonded warehouse within the EU. However, spirits from Southern Bond were 'diverted onto the UK market and sold without the duty being paid.