A shopkeeper has been fined after a Trading Standards raid revealed illegal tobacco stashed behind the counter, hidden in a modified jacket, and stuffed in a holdall in the basement.
Sardar Mohammed, who runs Timisoara convenience store on Ashton Road, Oldham, was hauled before Tameside Magistrates' Court earlier this month after over 22,500 cigarettes were seized from his store in September 2020.
Oldham Council raided the shop with officers from Trading Standards and a trained sniffer dog after members of the public alerted them to illicit tobacco being sold on the premises.
