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A shopkeeper in East Sussex has been given a suspended jail term and fined
Posted 14 February 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Counterfeit Goods|South East
UPDATES: An East Sussex shopkeeper has received a suspended jail sentence and a fine after being caught selling illegal tobacco, adding another prosecution to trading standards’ work against the illicit trade.
Shopkeeper Arsalan Mohammadi was convicted at Hastings Magistrates’ Court last month following an investigation of his store – One Shop, in London Road – by officers from East Sussex Trading Standards.
Undercover operatives were sold Golden Virginia rolling tobacco not bearing the plain packaging required by law, while officers also seized counterfeit Richmond cigarettes.
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