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Public urged to snitch on rogue retailers in bid to break illegal tobacco smuggling chain and save lives

They fund organised crime, enabling people trafficking, child exploitation, money laundering – and even terrorism.

Warning to illegal tobacco sellers in Greater Manchester

Rogue retailers in Greater Manchester who sell illegal tobacco are being watched as part of…

Illegal tobacco sellers in Manchester are warned

Retailers who sell illegal tobacco are being watched as part of a regional campaign to…

Alverthorpe shop facing counterfeit tobacco claims from West Yorkshire Police

Another Wakfield store could lose it booze licence over police allegations it was selling counterfeit…

Northumberland premises found to be selling illegal tobacco again

More than 12,000 illicit cigarettes and numerous packets of hand rolling tobbaco worth £4,000 have…

Sunderland sniffer dog tracks down 4,000 illegal cigarettes as council crack down on counterfeit tobacco

The specially trained dog sniffed out a massive haul of ‘knock-off’ tobacco as the council…

Millions of illegal tobacco products seized as part of crackdown on illicit tobacco trade

More than five million illegal cigarettes have been seized from local retail outlets in the…

Wakefield store selling counterfeit cigarettes was ‘criminal enterprise’, West Yorkshire Police says

A convenience store was run as a “criminal enterprise” as it sold counterfeit cigarettes over…

Bolton shopkeeper fined over £2,000 for selling illegal tobacco

A SHOPKEEPER has been prosecuted and fined for selling illegal tobacco at a Bolton newsagents.

West Yorkshire News Huddersfield town centre Huddersfield town centre newsagent hid illicit cigarettes behind secret walls in his shop

His business, Kingsgate News in  Huddersfield town centre, was well know to the authorities


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