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Gloucestershire County Council’s Trading Standards team has successfully prosecuted a local man for supplying illegal tobacco products, following a seven-month investigation.

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Illegal tobacco and cigarettes worth more than £2,000 have been seized by Gloucestershire County Council Trading Standards officers after they discovered a hidden compartment in the wall of a shop in Cheltenham.

In a combined investigation officers from Gloucestershire County Council’s Trading Standards, HM Revenue & Customs and Gloucestershire Police have seized illegal cigarettes and tobacco worth almost £13,000 in Gloucester.

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Badran Said, 42, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison for selling illegal tobacco from stores in Eastgate Street, Gloucester between October 2016 and July 2017.

Trading standards officers found £1700 of illegal tobacco stashed behind a mirror in a shop in Cheltenham recently.