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Jason Poole, head of Gloucestershire Trading Standards and Consumer Protection, said the haul of one million cigarettes was "10 times more than we've ever seized before", with the goods found in Amin's flat and in lock-ups in Worcestershire

Officers uncovered remote controlled hydraulic hiding places, full of illegal tobacco, in the walls and floors of the shops

Taken from the Irish Mirror

Sold to children or without age checks It is illegal to sell cigarettes or tobacco products to anyone under 18, or for adults to buy them for someone under 18

The jury did not buy it for one minute." Richard Paris, assistant director in HMRCs Fraud Investigation Service, said: This gang was large, organised, sophisticated and determined to break the law

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