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Chris Knight

See the suspected illegal cigarettes seized from Gateshead home after undercover operation

This is just a selection of the thousands of suspected illegal cigarettes seized from a home in Gateshead following an undercover operation.

Almost 12,000 suspected illegal cigarettes were found in the raid on a residential property near Saltwell Road in Bensham.

Officers with Northumbria Police were joined by Trading Standards officers with Gateshead Council in executing the entry warrant.

The suspected illegal cigarettes seized in the raid after an undercover operation on a home in Bensham, Gateshead (Gateshead Council)

An undercover operation by Trading Standards confirmed police intelligence that illegal tobacco sales were taking place at the address.

The joint raid resulted in a search of the property during which 11,430 illicit cigarettes and 800g of hand rolling tobacco were uncovered.

More than £2,000 in cash was also seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Investigations into the raid findings remain ongoing.

Inside the home set up 'like a shop' to peddle fake Armani, Calvin Klein, Rolex and Nike goods

Woman, 66, caught 'selling counterfeit cigarettes to children' in Gateshead 

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