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North Somerset Courthouse.
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A man has been given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to 15 charges relating to the supply and distribution of illegal tobacco products.
Choli Hassan Ali, aged 45 of Diamond Batch in Worle, was sentenced to 10-weeks imprisonment suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work in the community and to pay £2,700 prosecution costs with a £115 victim surcharge.
The hearing at North Somerset Courthouse, in St Georges, on February 19 was told that in February 2019 nearly 25,000 cigarettes and 23kg of hand rolling tobacco were seized from Ali’s home address and vehicle following an intelligence-led visit by North Somerset Council’s Trading Standards Service accompanied by the police and a specialist officer from Trading Standards South West’s Regional Intelligence Unit.
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