A Salford shopkeeper has been fined after almost 13,000 counterfeit cigarettes and £5,000 cash was seized by trading standards officers.
Tasawar Hussain, 31, of Liverpool Road, Eccles, was fined £1,500 in court costs at Tameside Magistrates Court on Monday (March 28). The court heard how officers from Salford City Council’s Trading Standards team visited the Xtra Local shop on Liverpool Road on February 4, 2020.
Upon attending the premises, officers seized almost 13,000 counterfeit cigarettes and 49 pouches of counterfeit tobacco. Hussain later identified himself as the owner of the business, but during the inspection denied that he had personally sold the illegal goods.
