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13th January
Some 20 men have been arrested in an estimated £50m excise duty and VAT fraud linked to the abuse of the international bonded warehouse system The men were arrested by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) criminal investigators during co-ordinated raids on 12 commercial and 17 domestic premises across the South East and the Midlands on the morning of December 7. Co-ordinated searches were also undertaken in Germany. It is suspected that alcohol, bought duty free and said to be destined for markets in the European Union, was smuggled back onto the UK market without the appropriate payment.
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