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Illegal tobacco and vapes worth £670k seized

News imageTrading Standards The inside of a shipping container, focused on a cardboard box full of rolling tobacco with a pile of small blue boxes and packets of cigarettes behind it. Two full black bin bags are on the left and a pile of cardboard boxes on the right.Trading Standards
The illegal items were found in a raid at a storage facility

More than £600,000 worth of illegal cigarettes, tobacco and vapes were seized during a raid at a storage facility in Stoke-on-Trent.

Trading Standards and Staffordshire Police officers discovered 638,380 cigarettes, 108kg of hand-rolling tobacco and 1,262 vapes when they raided the premises in Etruria.

The retail value of the items was believed to be £671,363, a Stoke-on-Trent City Council spokesperson confirmed, and they were found in two shipping containers at the site.

The person who hired the containers which stored the goods is now under investigation, they added.

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