'Booze brothers' sing the jailhouse blues

摘要

Lincolnshire brothers lnderjit Singh Mangher, 30, and Amandeep Singh Mangher, 27, have been sentenced to four years and 27 months in jail, respectively, for defrauding UK tax and customs authorities of £6.3 million ($11.3 million) in the illegal sale of alcohol. The pair, known as the booze brothers, sold large quantities of tax-free wine, beer and spirits - stock that had been intended for export - to local off-licences and liquor vendors. Investigators found that the brothers had sold or were intending to sell 4.2 million litres of beer and cider, 250,000 litres of wine and 220,000 litres of spirits. In an attempt to disguise their illegal activities, the brothers stuck counterfeit labels over the bottles' legitimate ones.