Brits accused in Sweden garlic smuggling racket
Published: 9 Jan 13 08:43 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/45506/20130109/
Sweden has issued an arrest warrant for two Britons suspected of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of garlic into Sweden from Norway.
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Prosecutors estimate the pair smuggled around €10 million ($13.1 million) worth of garlic into Sweden for distribution throughout the EU.
"We're talking about big money and a profitable operation," prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand told the local Bohusläningen newspaper.
"It involved many shipments of garlic."
While garlic can be imported to Norway from China duty-free, the EU slaps a 9.6 percent duty on garlic imports.
According to the warrant, the Britons are suspected of using a company set up in Norway to profit from the import duty discrepancy, smuggling more than 100 tonnes of garlic across the Swedish border since 2009.
Prosecutors hope issuing warrants for the pair will result in them being arrested and extradited back to Sweden on charges of aggravated customs violations.
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But import something into Sweden without paying the right tax, and it's out with the international arrest warrants, and they're down on you like 100 tonnes of garlic.
Would it help if Sweden imagined its citizen terrorists to be garlic smugglers?
Maybe I should go into hiding, leave the fruit and veg section and stay in cheese and meats for a while !
It took some Brits to probably ruin some other lucrative schemes run for years by locals !
Wait till they find out about the illicit godis trade !
It appears that someone in Sweden`s press is taking lessons from `our` press in
UK,at giving this sort of thing press coverage.
These idots smuggle of all things `garlic` from Norway into Sweden,depriving our
wonderfull EU of import revenue,at a time when the EU is trying to screw all of us our of our revenue.....tuff luck!
But seriously,these guys get all this publicity for smuggling garlic......at least garlic dont kill people....unless you count seriously rotten breath as a danger.
What about spending the same time and money,be it $ or Kronor,on people smuggling drugs or other nasties over the borders. Catch them and nobody would mind spending money to stop that filthy trade.
Incidentally,I know the `Dollar` is an international currency, but,I still prefer to see our prices in Uk marked in `£`,or in your case `kronor`. I may be a Brit,but
I do understand the Swedish currency,and the fact that like us Brits...the Swedish nation has not bowed down to EU or German ideas just yet over currency or Sovereignty. Britain should remain in the EU,but as a Sovereign state in our own right,as i would hope Sweden will.
Tack sa mycket...vi sees senare
It's clearly a EU conspiracy to hold back the Chinese economy by preventing day shift work in Eastern factories...
Damn you Van Helsing *monocle falls from eye into tea* DAmnnn YOooouuu Sir...