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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucinda Cameron

Scam in a teacup: The fraudster who conned luxury brands into buying fake ‘Scottish tea’

Wee Tea Plantation owner and grower Thomas Robinson sampling the tea at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh - (Shutterstock)

A man who amassed more than £550,000 by selling tea he falsely claimed was cultivated in Scotland to high-end businesses has been jailed for three and a half years.

Thomas Robinson, 55, operated under the guise of 'The Wee Tea Plantation', asserting that he had developed innovative techniques to grow the tea at his Perthshire estate. He fraudulently sold the product to prominent clients in the hospitality sector.

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