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Illicit tobacco sellers are using ever more elaborate means of concealment, says Derby TS
Posted 16 November 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|East Midlands
UPDATES: Derby Trading Standards is uncovering increasingly sophisticated hiding places for illicit tobacco and illegal vapes, with Operation CeCe raids exposing concealed stock worth thousands of pounds despite elaborate hydraulic compartments designed to evade detection.
Shopkeepers selling illicit cigarettes and tobacco are finding increasingly elaborate means of concealing their stashes of illegal goods, according to Derby City Council Trading Standards.
During a series of inspections on 7 November the Derby Trading Standards team, supported by Derbyshire Police and a specially trained tobacco detection dog, found that the owners of one shop had gone to...
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