GRIMSBY: Some 1,500 illicit cigarettes have been found in premises in Grimsby following a number of raids this morning.
Trading Standards searched three premises, while officers from HMRC also carried out raids on four different addresses simultaneously on Freeman Street at 9.50am this morning.
The 1,500 cigarettes and rolling paper were recovered from the second premises Trading Standards searched. That overall number is expected to rise after the results of the other searches are unveiled. No one was arrested in connection with the raid on the second address.
Neil Clark, trading Standards manager at North East Lincolnshire Council, said: “This is a Trading Standards-led operation with support from Humberside Police, HM Revenue and Customs and officers from Home Office Immigration Enforcement.
“Officers are searching a number of shop premises in the Freeman Street area of Grimsby in a crackdown on the scale of illicit tobacco products.”
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