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Posted: 2:21 AM Feb 9, 2010
Fla. Man Smuggles More than a Million Packs of Cigarettes
A Homestead man has been sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling more than a million packs of cigarettes out of the United States.
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MIAMI (AP) - A Homestead man has been sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling more than a million packs of cigarettes out of the United States.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami reports that 57-year-old
Roman Vidal, who was sentenced Friday, avoided paying more than $5.6 million in customs and tax duties. The cigarettes were sent to accomplices is Spain, Great Britain, Ireland and Germany. On four separate occasions between December 2001 and April 2008, Vidal reportedly smuggled 2,702 master cases - totaling more than 27 million individual cigarettes - out of the Port of Miami.
Vidal reportedly produced false documents that only declared
cover load materials, so that custom duties and taxes were based
only on the falsely declared cargo and not on the cigarettes.
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