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16 October 2015
16.10.15 - Nouri, who runs K&H News & Off Licence in Morley Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to a total of 19 offences, including selling tobacco in packaging likely to be mistaken for a registered trade mark, possessing cigarettes without the statutory health warnings, with intent to supply, and allowing unlawfully imported tobacco to be kept in his licensed premises.
14 October 2015
14.10.15 - Kurosh Asemani, former operator of European Foods in Stockton, pleaded guilty to five offences.
14 October 2015
14.10.15 - Six officers from the Croydon trading standards team, backed by police, found some 4,600 50g packets of bogus Golden Virginia rolling tobacco during a swoop on the production plant.
10 October 2015
10.10.15 - In raids that took place in 2013 and 2014, HMRC Officers found Xiao Mei Wang (48) with thousands of fake tobacco pouches, phoney tax stamps, £2,710 in cash, bogus holographic seals and over 120kgs of counterfeit tobacco and illicit cigarettes stashed around her flat.
08 October 2015
08.10.15 - Cigarettes were concealed behind ceiling tiles, in cupboards, hidden compartments and bags in an attempt to avoid detection. All products will be destroyed in due course.
06 October 2015
06.10.15 - Reading Borough Council's Trading Standards team have so far taken 320 bottles of illegal vodka and beer from 13 unnamed off-licences around the town.
05 October 2015
05.10.15 - A SCUNTHORPE shopkeeper has become the first in North Lincolnshire to be stripped of his licence to sell alcohol after being caught selling counterfeit and illegal cigarettes.
02 October 2015
02.10.15 - Samane Babakr Mahmwd, 31, director of Zabka (Darwesh Supermarket) Ltd of Liverpool Road, Eccles, pleaded guilty at Salford and Manchester magistrates court to three offences of possessing illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco.
30 September 2015
30.09.15 - Remigijus Dinkevicius, 46, from Haven Meadow, was given a 16 week sentence at Lincoln Crown Court last week.
25 September 2015
25.09.15 - Stephen, Paul and Philip Riese had been selling the dodgy tobacco and were caught in a police and trading standards swoop.
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