Login'Record seizure' makes local history
Hammersmith & Fulham TS found more than 60,000 illegal goods on sale at a local shop
Posted 15 October 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|London
UPDATES: A routine visit to a Hammersmith and Fulham convenience store uncovered what the council described as the biggest illegal cigarette seizure in local history, alongside tobacco, vapes and evidence of suspected organised crime links that led to the shop being shut down.
Trading Standards Officers at the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham have made “the biggest seizure of illegal cigarettes in local history” according to the council, with more than 60,000 cigarettes, packs of hand-rolling tobacco and disposable vapes being removed from a business with suspected links to organised crime.
When Hammersmith & Fulham Senior Trading Standard...
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