Page 4 - Standardised Packaging News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

in his store. In February 2019, the council’s trading standards team conducted a test purchase and received illegally packaged tobacco from the Brothers Pan Corner Limited shop on Stoke Poges Lane. The team seized 1,200 packs of cigarettes, 1,000 pouches of smokeless tobacco, and 60 pouches of hand-rolling tobacco after returning with Thames Valley Police tobacco sniffer dogs a week later who discovered the haul. Much of the seized tobacco bore either non-English labelling, non-statutory health warnings or was in non-plain and branded packaging, which fail under the Trade Marks Act 19...

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...

The illegal tobacco was found at the Easy Shop in Darlington's Victoria Road in September 2019. Hemin Hussain Mohammed, 34, of Wilson Street, Darlington, who owns the shop, pleaded guilty to supplying conterfeit cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco when he appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court on January 14 The case was the fifth prosecution following Operation Sirenian, a multi-agency operation led by Darlington Borough Council’s trading standards officers aimed at tackling the supply of illegal tobacco in the town. Mr Mohammed, admitted one offence of possessing for supply...