A gang caught stashing millions of counterfeit cigarettes worth more than £1.8m at a Lincolnshire farm have been handed prison sentences totalling 26 years.
The six men, including 44-year-old Idrees Ahmed from south Manchester, used a farm in the sleepy village of Midville to smuggle more than 6.5 millon cigarettes in what investigators called an 'organised' and 'sophisticated' operation.
The group were convicted of conspiracy to evade excise duty following a four-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court after seized Richmond cigarettes were tested and found to be counterfeit.
