A Canadian-born Gozitan has been fined just over €50,000 for failing to pay around €20,000 worth of tax and duty on cigarettes.

Johnny Sultana, 47 from Victoria, was also given a one-year jail sentence, suspended for two years.

In 2014, he was caught with 18,000 contraband cigarettes and with having disposed of a further 82,000, worth €2,900 in all. The court, presided by Magistrate Joe Mifsud, ordered the confiscation of the cigarettes.

Mr Sultana pleaded guilty to all charges.

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