Garlic smuggler jailed for six years

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There are plenty of things that spring to mind when we think of smuggling: alcohol and tobacco maybe, or drugs and firearms. But surely not garlic.

But it turns out that garlic smuggling is big business, and one man has just been jailed for six years after evading an estimated £2 million in customs duty over illicit garlic imports. So how was he caught, and what are the consequences?
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