For the latest Oldham news sign up to the MyOldham newsletter here A stash of 14,000 illegal cigarettes was found hidden in the back of the shop after members of the public tipped off the authorities.
Insider information that tobacco was being sold ‘under the counter’ was being fed to Oldham Council officers, leading them to the huge bust at Ali General Store in Pitt Street.
Trading Standards officers, along with a specialist sniffer dog, raided the shop on June 24. The dog discovered a total of 14,640 illicit cigarettes which were then seized. READ MORE: How Line of Duty turned into reality: Hero policeman who tried to save bomb victims turned into a spy for organised crime The same day, company director Saqib Ali, of Pitt Street,
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