A MAN involved in the importation of 2.4 million bootleg cigarettes from the Continent was yesterday jailed for 18 months.
Durham Crown Court was told Hugh Knowlson was "a go-between" in the operation, helping to arrange the smuggling of the cigarettes among a consignment of peat from Lithuania.
The 44-year-old from Blossom Grove, Success, near Shiney Row, on Wearside, admitted conspiracy to evade payment of duty on imported tobacco.
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