fake richmond cigarettes Real blues/original are fake. it's regulation to have the uk duty box the same size on every box and when you search the barcode on the it leads to a Trading standards teams catch illegal

Ihtesham Khalid, 32, from Rowley Regis, was one of six convicted over the huge smuggling operation

Bishop Auckland man fined after trying to sell fake cigarettes John Edward Bennett had 237 packets of fake Richmond cigarettes but told police he bought them from a van and thought they were duty frees A Bishop Auckland man who tried to sell fake cigarettes to people on the streets of County Durham has been handed a 500 fine

Gang leader Tomasz Skubis, 37, and co-conspirators Idrees Ahmed, 44, and Ali Tofiq, 45, were arrested on the same day 19 miles away on the A58 near Baumber in a hire car

If cigarettes are being sold well below the usual retail price, there is a reasonable chance they are either counterfeit or have been smuggled into the country without duty being paid

If someone is regularly selling duty-free cigarettes or tobacco, you can report it

Reducing the illegal market would mean more money being paid to the government and less tax needing to be raised by other means