fake richmond cigarettes Warning to city shop owners as thousands of dangerous counterfeit seized in raids Cigarettes worth over €1m seized

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Ross Cook, Director for City Environment at City of Wolverhampton Council, said: Our Trading Standards officers carry out operations such as this to help protect the public from dangerous products, as well as to protect our legitimate businesses

There is simply no way of knowing what has gone into them or how they were produced

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

The court heard how they were selling silver Benson & Hedges (B&H) cigarettes, which generally retail for 9, for 2.75

Customs officials in France make surprising discovery among potatoes destined for Ireland - The Irish Mirror The lorry carrying the cigarettes was inspected at Cherbourg Ferry Port as it prepared to embark on a ferry to Ireland Customs officials in France have seized more than eight tonnes of illegal cigarettes being smuggled to Ireland hidden inside a delivery of potatoes