A man has been forced to pay over £5,000 in fines after he was found guilty to have sold illegal cigarettes in Slough. 43-year-old Muhammad Imran Naseer pleaded guilty to supplying one pack of 20 Marlboro Gold cigarettes in a packet that bore text health warnings that were not in English at an undisclosed Slough location on February 7, 2019. For this, Naseer was fined £100, told to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £110 and to pay costs of £4000. On top of this, Naseer was also fined for several other incidents in which illegal cigarettes and/or tobacco were sold.
On or about February 13, 2019, supplied 294 packs of cigarettes, comprising of Marlboro Gold (210), Rothmans (40), Marlboro Red (20), Kent (21), Bon International (2) and Pall Mall (1). The text health warnings were not in English. Fined £100.