Edgware Road shopkeeper hid huge stash of black market tobacco and cigarettes behind fake wall
An Edgware Road newsagent stashed 97kg of tobacco and 92,000 black market cigarettes behind a fake wall to sell to customers and dodge about £35,000 in tax.Murtaba Alijanabi, 46, was foiled when Westminster City Council and HMRC sent sniffer dogs to his shop, Red Sea.
They found 91,160 cigarettes and nearly 82kg of Shisha tobacco behind the false wall, and returned the next day to find another 1,436 cigarettes and 15kg of tobacco.
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