Two store owners in Brent have been handed hefty fines for possessing cigarettes without displaying the correct health warnings. Mr Mohammad Hashim Aryubi and Mr Karim Kedr were ordered to pay more than £3800 in total by Willesden Magistrates Court earlier this month.
Forty-two year-old Mr Aryubi, was fined £1000 and ordered to pay costs of £961 for the offence.
The court heard how in November of last year, Brent Council Trading Standards Officers received a complaint and visited the supermarket, where they found large numbers of foreign labelled cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco pouches on display. In total, officers confiscated 83 pouches of hand rolling tobacco, 25 packets of shisha tobacco molasses and 133 packets of cigarettes, all without the correct health warnings in English, which is required by law.
