No5 Chambers’ Richard Gibbs defends in tobacco importation tax evasion case

Richard Gibbs from No5 Chambers is defending one of three defendants charged as part of a £1.6m conspiracy to evade tax on the importation of tobacco.

HMRC seized the tobacco in the form of cigarettes and hand-rolled tobacco from addresses in Wolverhampton during 2012 and 2013.

Shahab Ali, represented by Gibbs, is charged together with Alan Nesbeth and Renna Graham with conspiring with others to evade the tax and to transport counterfeit tobacco from various storage and container units across the West Midlands.

The trial, which is also linked to cases involving two Chinese nationals who are charged with the same offences, is set to last for three weeks before Wolverhampton Crown Court.