A construction firm boss was jailed for five years after evading duty on 23.4 million cigarettes.
leg Bolun, 39, and two others were caught unloading pallets from a lorry in Essex.
Officers later discovered £840,000 at a garage owned by Bolun in Sydenham, Chelmsford crown court heard.
HMRC seized the cigarettes between November 2018 and July 2019.
Bolun had documents that detailed the purchase of tobacco worth £9.5 million in unpaid duty.
Bolun was jailed after admitting excise fraud and possessing criminal cash.
Three accomplices received four years, two years and 12 months, suspended for two years, respectively.
