Countywide operation helping to tackle ongoing issue Operation Hind, Leicestershire County Council Trading Standards’ initiative to crack down on the sale of illegal cigarettes and vapes, has secured two more successful prosecutions. Arya Mohammad Pour (24) of 54A Page Hall Road, Sheffield, appeared before Leicester Magistrates' Court on Wednesday 19 August, where it was heard that he had sold 22 packets of counterfeit Richmond cigarettes to undercover Trading Standard office

It's closing time for High Street crime HMRC has made unannounced visits to 13 shops across Leicestershire as it scales up its work to tackle illegal activity on the high street. Unannounced visits to 13 shops across Leicestershire More than 5,000 cigarettes and 3,549 litres of alcohol seized Part of 30,000 interventions this year by HMRC on the high street Officers from HMRC, with support from colleagues in Trading Standards, Immigration Enforcement and Police, visite

This is the fifth successful prosecution under Operation Hind. Two shop workers have been sentenced following a successful prosecution by Leicestershire County Council Trading Standards, after illegal tobacco products were sold from a Loughborough shop. This is the fifth successful prosecution under Operation Hind, launched to tackle the growing problem of counterfeit tobacco and non‑compliant vaping products being sold in local shops across the county. Khalid Aziz Faraj, of