Derby shopkeeper fined £4,000 for fake tobacco offences at Swadlincote store
A SHOPKEEPER from Derby has been fined £4,000 for possessing and selling fake tobacco. Dana Hamid, of Church Street, Littleover, admitted to eight charges at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court in Derby yesterday. He admitted seven charges of the sale and possession of counterfeit tobacco and one charge of possessing cigarettes for sale without the legally required in-built fire safety features. The offences dated from January 13, 2014, to October 1, 2014, and took place at the Sweet Shop in Church Street, Swadlincote, where Hamid had taken over the tenancy in November 2013.
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