Thousands of illegal cigarettes with a market value of £24,000 have been seized from a home in Newcastle. Trading standards officers with Newcastle City Council visited the residential property on Wednesday morning. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/illegal-cigarettes-tobacco-newcastle-west-14982927 ...more
A Stockton shop has lost its booze licence after the owner tried to transfer his licence to a “mate” following a trading standards raid. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/shop-targeted-counterfeit-raid-loses-14969984 ...more
The tobacco industry is working to secure control of a system to track the movement of cigarettes around the world, allegedly because it is complicit in the smuggling of its own products, according to a new research paper. ...more
The premises licence allowing a mini-market to sell alcohol has been revoked by councillors who heard of a series of tobacco busts. ...more
The couple made hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process, with the potential turnover of the business estimated at between £936,000 and £1.2million over the course of three years. ...more
A Stockton woman who hid thousands of illegal cigarettes inside Dr Dre headphone boxes has been ordered to repay £16,000. ...more
A Middlesbrough couple caught with almost 140,000 illegal cigarettes have been handed suspended jail terms. ...more
Officers making the discovery behind the wall in a Gateshead shop ...more
A five-strong tobacco smuggling gang, which brought more than 12 million illicit cigarettes into the North East hidden inside wooden cable drum discs, has been jailed. ...more
A smuggling gang who flooded the North East with more than 12 million illegal cigarettes after stashing then inside cable drum discs have been jailed. ...more
