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Smuggling garlic

  • 10-10-2017 10:32pm
    #1
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    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.


  • #3
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    He's the head of Customs & Excise now.


  • #4
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    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!


  • #5
    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    Back of the net!

    Cashback!


  • #6
    JimmyMcGill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭JimmyMcGill


    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?


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  • #7
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    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..


  • #8
    Karangue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 152 ✭✭Karangue


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


  • #9
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    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.


  • #10
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    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?


  • #11
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    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.


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  • #12
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    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


  • #13
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    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.


  • #14
    Karangue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 152 ✭✭Karangue


    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?


  • #15
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    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.


  • #16
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    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 ?


  • #17
    STB.
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    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.


  • #18
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


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

    Begley, that's the scoundrel.


  • #19
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    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


  • #20
    Doltanian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    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.


  • #21
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    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.


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  • #22
    TalkingBull
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭TalkingBull


    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


  • #23
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    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?


  • #24
    Shemale
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    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


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