HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reports that London resident Nigel Barratt was sentenced to 28 months in jail after he was involved in a scheme that laundered low duty fuels to remove the chemical marker.
The fuel was then sold on as legitimate diesel, with the profits being channelled through a number of bank accounts and cheque cashing companies, people in tax jobs in London might note.
Mr Barratt also received a Serious Crime Prevention Order stopping him from trading in fuels in the future.
Mike O' Grady, assistant director of criminal investigation at HMRC, said: "[Laundered fuel] undercuts honest businesses and has devastating effects on the environment when the toxic by-products of the laundering process are dumped in the countryside, costing tens of thousands of pounds in clean up costs."
People in the look-out for tax jobs in London might be interested to learn that Mr Barratt was part of a six person crime gang whose other members have also been detained.
Steven Peter Hipwell, 32, was arrested by Cherng Talay Police on December 22 at 4.30 pm allegedly in possession of two bags of cocaine
Steven Peter Hipwell, 32, was arrested by Cherng Talay Police on December 22 at 4.30 pm allegedly in possession of two bags of cocaine totaling 0.6 and 0.7 grams. His arrest came in a sting operation involving another Englishman ,who had been arrested on drug charges by police in Patong days earlier.Police alleged that David Pet had been caught with cocaine on Nanai Road, and while being held he told police that Hipwell had sold him the drugs.Police then arranged a sting and raid on Hipwell's house, where David ''bought'' the cocaine while police waited outside.Police searched Hipwell's home. Officers said they found another small packet of cocaine in a money jar.Hipwell is being held in Phuket jail while the court considers bail.Both Pet and Hipwell were living and working in Phuket, police say
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