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Pizza delivery driver who tried to smuggle £31,000 of tobacco into Manchester is jailed

May 13, 2015 by adminficci News 0 comments

A pizza delivery driver has been jailed after trying to smuggle shisha worth over £31,000 into Manchester Airport.  Sameh Mohammed Antar Moustafa, 36, of Belmore Avenue, Crumpsall, was rumbled by UK Border Force last summer.  He was trying to smuggle 178 kilos of ‘Al Fakher’ molasses tobacco – known as shisha – into the country from Egypt in his family’s suitcases.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pizza-delivery-driver-who-tried-9248115

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