Sibling smugglers jailed in HMRC sting

Commercial Motor
November 22, 2018


Two London-based brothers, who evaded £3.6m in tax by distributing alcohol smuggled into the UK, have been jailed for more than 12 years.

Siblings Tayfun and Taylan Donger, both of Edmonton, north London, masterminded the scam but were caught unloading beer brought into the UK from Belgium in a truck driven by Conor McCreesh from Northern Ireland. The truck was searched at a warehouse in Epping, Essex, and HMRC officers arrested the brothers and McCreesh as they removed the alcohol from an HGV.

The officers seized more than £4,000, an HGV, a forklift, pump trucks and two vans, which had been used to carry or handle non-UK duty paid alcohol. Investigations revealed that during a seven-month period, the pair had distributed smuggled alcohol worth £3.6m in unpaid duty and VAT into the UK.

Assistant director of HMRC Fraud Investigation Service Brett Wilkinson said: “The Donger brothers thought they had developed the perfect scheme to illegally trade in illicit alcohol until HMRC officers stopped them in their tracks.”

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