Burnley shopkeeper busted as raid uncovers £12,000 counterfeit cigarettes haul
A shopkeeper who stood to make more than £12,000 selling illegal cigarettes has been caught and convicted following a Trading Standards raid.
Lancashire County Council’s Trading Standards team estimate that the packs were worth £12,366 compared to the cost of their genuine, tax-paid counterparts. A test purchase was carried out in the shop around a month later when a different employee sold a packet of Richmond-branded cigarettes for £4.50 - less than half of the high street price of a legitimate pack.
County Councillor Michael Green, cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: "Shops selling smuggled and counterfeit tobacco undermine efforts to reduce smoking rates and make it virtually impossible for law-abiding retailers to compete. Counterfeit tobacco poses an additional risk as consumers have no way of knowing what goes into making it, or of the levels of harmful substances it might contain.
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