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Banbury shop owner found guilty after fake cigarettes seized
A Banbury shop owner has been ordered to pay back £75,000 following a raid where counterfeit cigarettes were seized.
Thursday, 25th February 2021, 8:49 pm
Oxfordshire Trading standards swooped in on the Warwick Road, Banbury shop in June 2019, seizing nearly 3,000 illegal cigarettes as part of the case (photo from Oxfordshire County Council)
A Banbury shop owner has been ordered to pay back £75,000 following a raid where counterfeit cigarettes were seized.
Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team brought a prosecution of Narinder Singh Malhotra, the director of Banbury Express Food and Wine Limited, which trades from 179 Warwick Road, Banbury. The case was heard at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday.
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Bosses of Sydenhams Limited appeared in the dock of Oxford Magistrates Court on Friday. It was after an underage volunteer from Oxfordshire County Council purchased a Stanley knife from the Abingdon branch on January 21. The head of Oxfordshire’s Trading Standards said that officers had gone into shops to give advice on selling age-restricted products and let managers know that test purchases would be carried out. At court the mitigation counsel stated the company had no previous convictions in almost 150 years of trading and that it was a ‘mistake’ made by an otherwise exemplary employee. The company was fined £15,000 reduced to £10,000 for an early guilty plea.