{"id":671688,"date":"2026-07-03T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:17:08","slug":"glasgow-businessman-who-imported-tobacco-hidden-in-furniture-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671688\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow businessman who imported tobacco hidden in furniture banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Glasgow businessman who imported raw tobacco hidden inside furniture has been disqualified as a company director for eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tobacco, which was in vacuum-sealed bags and tins, was intercepted by Border Force officers at Grangemouth, near Falkirk, in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shipment was in a container addressed to Fazle Masum&#8217;s company, Unique Enterprise Ltd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42-year-old did not have the necessary customs approval to import raw tobacco and was fined almost \u00a3153,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Insolvency Service said the firm later went into liquidation owing almost \u00a3175,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Glasgow businessman who imported raw tobacco hidden inside furniture has been disqualified as a company director for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}