Smuggling garlic

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 9:32pm #1

Whatever happened to yer man that got six years for getting mixed up in it all? It was front page news at the time but he's obviously been released a good while now but no follow up. While we can all sleep easy in our beds knowing Larry Murphy is living it up on the continent, is this kingpin at large in the community? Or did he jump on the first plane to somewhere sunny but shady like most of ilk?

myshirt · 10-10-2017 9:36pm

He has now got a scam going where he brings his own plate (12 inch plate) to an all you can eat buffet that normally issues a 10 inch plate as standard.

Barry Badrinath · 10-10-2017 9:36pm

He's the head of Customs & Excise now.

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 9:36pm

myshirt wrote: »

He has now got a scam going where he brings his own plate (12 inch plate) to an all you can eat buffet that issues a 10 inch plate as standard.

Back of the net!

myshirt · 10-10-2017 9:37pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Back of the net!

Cashback!

JimmyMcGill · 10-10-2017 9:38pm

myshirt wrote: »

He has now got a scam going where he brings his own plate (12 inch plate) to an all you can eat buffet that issues a 10 inch plate as standard.

Is he the gravedigger guy who digs half holes for half the price?

Omackeral · 10-10-2017 9:40pm

It was always the go to for any other sentences handed down wasn't it?

Dublin Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Assault

''What a great a great country we live in, you can nearly kill someone and get 3 years but smuggle garlic and you get over half a decade.'' Water protestors after that. TV License are the ever present bar though..

Karangue · 10-10-2017 10:06pm

Let’s do a post Mortem of everyone sent to collage. This is exciting stuff.

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 10:13pm

Omackeral wrote: »

It was always the go to for any other sentences handed down wasn't it?

Dublin Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Assault

And rightly so. Our judiciary system is full of holes. It's says something when you think about it though, hit a citizen in the face it's 3 years(27 months in jail if you don't act the prick) but hit the government in the pocket and you get landed with 6.

endacl · 10-10-2017 10:14pm

Karangue wrote: »

Let’s do a post Mortem of everyone sent to collage. This is exciting stuff.

Perform a forensic medical examination of every deceased individual ever tasked with sticking little bits of paper to larger bits of paper?

To what end?

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 10:28pm

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

He's the head of Customs & Excise now.

Our customs and excize are no clowns. It didn't take long for them to sniff out the garlic bandit.

Ulysses Gaze · 10-10-2017 10:32pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

And rightly so. Our judiciary system is full of holes. It's says something when you think about it though, hit a citizen in the face it's 3 years(27 months in jail if you don't act the prick) but hit the government in the pocket and you get landed with 6.

Except if you work for Anglo or ILP...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/anglo-trial-three-ex-bankers-jailed-over-7bn-fraud-1.2738637

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail while his Anglo colleague John Bowe was given a two year term.
Denis Casey, the former group chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, has been jailed for two years and nine months

Skylinehead · 10-10-2017 10:36pm

He was given 2 years in the end, not 6.

And "Man given 2 year sentence for multi-million euro tax fraud" doesn't have the same ring to it I guess.

Karangue · 10-10-2017 10:38pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

He was given 2 years in the end, not 6.

And "Man given 2 year sentence for multi-million euro tax fraud" doesn't have the same ring to it I guess.

Link?

Ulysses Gaze · 10-10-2017 10:39pm

Karangue wrote: »

Link?

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garlic-man-begley-released-early-from-prison-29156388.html

A DUBLIN businessman jailed over a €1.6 million garlic import duty scam has been granted temporary release from prison.
Paul Begley was jailed for six years after admitting labelling more than 1,000 tonnes of garlic imported from China as apples, which have a lower tax rate.

Last January the Court of Criminal Appeal reduced his sentence to two years after the three judge court ruled that the landmark Revenue sentence was not proportionate to both the crime and the criminal.

Erik Shin · 10-10-2017 10:40pm

Karangue wrote: »

Let’s do a post Mortem of everyone sent to collage. This is exciting stuff.

I do like a good collage...I use paper and gloy for mine, What about you ?

STB. · 10-10-2017 10:40pm

Presume he meant gulag rather than collage.

You dont go to prison for not having a Tv licence. You could go to prison for non-payment of a court ordered fine.

The garlic man had his sentence reduced by the Court of criminal appeal to 2. He served less than a year I believe and was let out on some on a community return scheme.

It might be ludicrous that the duty rate on garlic was 232% when apples were 9% but that amounted to €1.6m of evaded duty.

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 10:53pm

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garlic-man-begley-released-early-from-prison-29156388.html

Begley, that's the scoundrel.

tomwaterford · 10-10-2017 11:02pm

Erik Shin wrote: »

I do like a good collage...I use paper and gloy for mine, What about you ?

It's nothing without green glitter

Doltanian · 10-10-2017 11:09pm

Where the heck was he going with 1,000 tonnes of Garlic? That would surely be the entire consumption of Ireland in garlic terms for a whole year.

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 11:18pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

It's nothing without green glitter

It's never going to be the same minus the green glitter. As an aside, by kilogram weight green glitter is more expensive than proper shiny fishscale coke in Lima, yet green glitter can be obtained for next to nothing in Ireland. All I know is that once the Chinese start cultivating coca, paddys day will be absolutely f* kin turned on its head. People will be snorting green glitter off €2 coins and liberally sprinkling cocaine all over the kids before the parade.

TalkingBull · 10-10-2017 11:25pm

what is the import duty due on garlic/apples?, might chance 25ton to get started https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-crop-garlic-fresh-garlic-price_60407710278.html?spm=a2700.7724857.main07.11.3ef96509Y7h4xq&s=p

harry Bailey esq · 10-10-2017 11:32pm

TalkingBull wrote: »

what is the import duty due on garlic/apples?, might chance 25ton to get started https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-crop-garlic-fresh-garlic-price_60407710278.html?spm=a2700.7724857.main07.11.3ef96509Y7h4xq&s=p

Jaysus! How have the cartel in Spain not twigged this yet?

Shemale · 10-10-2017 11:44pm

myshirt wrote: »

He has now got a scam going where he brings his own plate (12 inch plate) to an all you can eat buffet that normally issues a 10 inch plate as standard.

He only has himself to blame for getting Graham the bear to talk to the tax auditor, "Dont be horrible to Alan, he doesnt avoid tax, he only evades it, oh.. its the other way round, oh shut up"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRFbQ21rSVc

Smuggling garlic

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