Communities across Teesside are helping to keep illegal tobacco off their streets as Fresh North East launches the next phase of its successful campaign to reduce the size of the market in illegal tobacco.
A MAN has been charged with evading more than £500,000 in excise duty and VAT after police seized duty free tobacco and counterfeit packaging.
PEOPLE are being urged to play their part in keeping illegal tobacco off the streets.
CUSTOMS officers yesterday seized 3.5 million cigarettes at Rosslare Port, adding to the haul of 38 million seized in Dublin Port on Thursday.
A PENSIONER accused of trying to evade duty on large amounts of cigarettes and tobacco has been cleared of two of the three charges he faced.
A Bradford shopkeeper traded in illicit cigarettes and tobacco from his city-centre store, a court heard.
A haul of bootleg tobacco has been seized in raids on Tyneside stores.
Two men from Staffordshire were today behind bars for their role in a counterfeit cigarette racket capable of making up to 625 million counterfeit cigarettes and five million pouches of fake hand rolling tobacco a year.
A COUPLE who ran an illicit enterprise dealing in smuggled tobacco and cigarettes have been jailed.
Over 16.5million illegal cigarettes – the largest single detection in the North West region this year – have been seized in Castleton.
