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Three Bootleggers Jailed
Three men who ran a cross-channel smuggling group, selling cheap French beer, wine and champagne in Britain, were jailed yesterday. The men were leaders of an 11-man group which made at least 42 tours on the Dover-Calais ferry in three months.
Trucks of cheap drink were brought into the country and sold
(19) at Sunday market and corner shops in South Wales. Two secret teams of customs officers
(20) vehicles between Kent and Cardiff in an operation called "chancer". Eleven men admitted their part in a
(21) to avoid paying duty on beer and spirits.
Mr. Roger Thomas said it was
(22) that 70,000 pounds of unpaid duty was involved between January and April last year when the gang was
(23) the smuggling group. Cases of beer, wine and champagne were brought to a rented warehouse in Cardiff before being
(24) to traders. Mr. Richard Nichols, a former market tr