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Illegal cigarettes worth £45k found hidden in fridge freezer during raids

Tens of thousands of pounds worth of illegal cigarettes and rolling tobacco have been seized.

Sheffield Trading Standards Team take down tobacco gang

Sheffield Trading Standards (STS) have busted an illegal tobacco gang seizing over £275,000 of illegal…

Police seize more thank 70,000 illegal cigarettes worth £400k in Hull

Covid is to blame for the spike

Three shops closed in Northumberland due to selling illegal tobacco

Three shops in Ashington that were caught repeatedly selling thousands of pounds worth of illegal…

Failed businessman had more than 200,000 illegal cigarettes

A FAILED businessman caught with more than 200,000 contraband cigarettes at a storage unit in…

Three shops in Ashington issued with closure notices for selling illegal tobacco

All three shops were selling illegal counterfeit cigarettes and rolling tobacco at vastly reduced prices

South Tyneside man prosecuted after large amounts of illegal tobacco products found at his home

South Tyneside’s Trading Standards team have prosecuted a Hebburn man after a large amount of…

Yorkshire masterminds behind UK’s biggest illegal tobacco factory ordered to pay back ill-gotten gains

Two masterminds behind the UK’s largest illegal tobacco factory have seen some of their ill-gotten…

Hessle Road shopkeeper hid 4,000 illegal cigarettes in holes in store’s back yard

He looked to profit £2,500 from their sale

More than 200,000 illicit cigarettes found in customs raid on Yorkshire self-storage units

Officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) raided the units in the Kirkstall/Heasdingley area of…


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