Fine for selling illicit tobacco A NEWSAGENT has been fined after a raid uncovered more than 100 packets of illegal cigarettes Shuaib Ahmed was fined £300 at Wigan Magistrates Court following a raid by Bolton Council’s trading standards team in March 2019. Officers visited Sultania News on Halliwell Road, owned by Ahmed, and uncovered 139 packs of cigarettes and 7 pouches of tobacco which it is illegal to sell in the UK. A member of staff was working behind the till and officers searched the premises using a specially trained sniffer dog. Illicit tobacco, which is not in approved UK packaging and does not carry required health warnings, was found under the shop counter and in a cardboard box in a storeroom.