More than £10k of booze seized at shop banned from selling alcohol after dodgy cigarette bust

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More than £10,000 of booze has been seized from a shop which had previously been banned from selling alcohol. When officers attended Ramiro’s Off Licence, St Helen’s Road, last year they found the huge haul of beer, wine and spirits, despite them being stripped of their licence after an earlier illegal tobacco sting.

Now shop owner Jennifer Bogdan and manager Sylvia Kone-Grain have been fined more than £3,000 after appearing in court. The pair entered the dock at Bolton Magistrates Court on Friday, March 3 charged with selling, displaying and keeping alcohol under section 136 of the licensing act, to which they pleaded guilty.

Bogdan was fined £1,027 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs. Kone-Grain was fined £1,274 and ordered to pay £500 costs. READ MORE: 'It's like throwing petrol on the fire': The Greater Manchester junction from 'hell' In June last year, following a lengthy investigation by trading standards officers assisted by Greater Manchester Police, Ramiro’s was closed under the anti-social behaviour, crime and policing act.

The shop was caught selling alcohol despite being previously banned from doing so. The investigation first began in March 2021 when the shop was banned from selling alcohol after illegal tobacco was purchased during an undercover operation.