Sardar Khedir Harris (36) who used to run the International Supermarket in Sparrow Hill, Loughborough, has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison after a raid uncovered the counterfeit goods.
A specially trained sniffer dog found the tobacco haul during the raid at the shop in December last year by Leicestershire County Council’s Trading Standards Service and police.
The officers seized a total of 123 packets of cigarettes and 53 pouches of hand rolling tobacco, which were in drawstring bags found hanging from a pipe outside the property.
The value of the fake tobacco products, had they been genuine and legal, would have been more than £1,800.
