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Tower Hamlets TS has seized more than £27,000 worth of illicit tobacco and vapes
Posted 03 January 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|London
UPDATES: Tower Hamlets Trading Standards uncovered a significant cache of illicit tobacco and oversized vapes hidden in secret compartments during pre-Christmas raids. The seizure forms part of wider efforts to disrupt organised criminal supply networks.
Tower Hamlets Trading Standards has disrupted a major illicit tobacco and vaping distribution operation, seizing more than £27,000 worth of goods in the run-up to Christmas.
During enforcement operations over two days in December 2023, Officers assisted by specially trained tobacco detection dogs provided by Wagtail Ltd confiscated more than 35,300 illegal cigarettes and 1,235 vapes ...
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