Smuggler Slammed with Nearly Five Years for Flooding UK with Hundreds of Thousands of Cigarettes and Drugs

A man has been locked up for four years and eight months after smuggling hundreds of thousands of cigarettes and prescription drugs into Britain. Rajveer Wadhwa, 43, was handed his sentence on Tuesday, 14 August, at Isleworth Crown Court.

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Back on 23 February 2017, detectives from the Met’s Aviation Policing Command swooped on three commercial units on Cranford Lane, 123, he pled guilty to the first four charges but initially denied concealing criminal property, only to change his plea to guilty on 31 July.

Wadhwa’s jail term sends a clear warning to anyone thinking of flooding Britain’s streets with illegal smokes and dangerous drugs.

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