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Campbell pleaded guilty to three offences contrary to the Trade Marks Act 1994 for possessing counterfeit cigarettes in the course of business with a view to selling them and a further offence contrary to the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 for possessing for supply tobacco products without the required health warnings

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Jason Poole, head of Gloucestershire Trading Standards and Consumer Protection, said the haul of one million cigarettes was "10 times more than we've ever seized before", with the goods found in Amin's flat and in lock-ups in Worcestershire

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They also revealed that officers seized seven tonnes of tobacco at the same port in October 2025 in a truck traveling the same route from the Netherlands to Ireland

Since May 2017, plain packaging regulations require all cigarettes to be sold in standardised olive green packaging with no branding other than the brand name in a standard plain typeface, along with large pictorial health warnings