Irishmen on UK tax dodgers list ‘on run here’

Two Irishmen have been named as some of the British government’s most wanted tax dodgers and are now believed to be on the run here.

According to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service, Michael ‘Arthur’ Fearon has been charged with evading excise duty on almost 8.4m Benson and Hedges cigarettes. That evasion has, it said, an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £2m (€2.32m).

Revenue said that Fearon is also wanted by the UK Border Agency in connection with money laundering offences and by gardaí here for driving offences.