{"id":681816,"date":"2026-07-09T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681816\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:33:13","slug":"cardiff-shop-fined-heavily-after-being-caught-selling-illegal-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681816\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff shop fined heavily after being caught selling illegal goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The store was selling vapes with tank sizes above legal limits in addition to counterfeit and incorrectly labelled tobacco products<\/p>\n

19:20, 08 Jul 2026Updated 19:36, 08 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

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The Mini Mart Store on Countisbury Avenue in Llanrumney, Cardiff(Image: Google)<\/p>\n

A Cardiff business has been ordered to pay more than \u00a320,000 after it was caught selling illegal vapes and tobacco.<\/p>\n

Aydin Ltd, trading as Mini Mart Store in Countisbury Avenue in Llanrumney, was found to be repeatedly selling illegal vapes and tobacco products following a series of investigations by Shared Regulatory Services (SRS). Aydin Ltd and its director, Rostam Ahmed, pleaded guilty to a total of 16 offences relating to the sale of those illegal products.<\/p>\n

Investigations revealed that the store was selling vapes with tank sizes above legal limits in addition to counterfeit and incorrectly labelled tobacco products. Never miss a Cardiff story by signing up to our daily newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n

At a sentenced hearing at Cardiff<\/a> Magistrates\u2019 Court on July 3 the company was fined \u00a316,000 as well as being ordered to pay \u00a34,600 in costs and a \u00a32,000 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n

Its director received a 12-month community order including a 10-day rehabilitation activity order. He was also ordered to pay a \u00a3500 fine, \u00a3100 in costs, and a \u00a3114 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n

All seized products were forfeited by the court and are now set to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

The mini mart had previously been made subject to a closure order under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 because of the scale and seriousness of the offending.<\/p>\n

Councillor Ed Stubbs, cabinet member responsible for shared regulatory services, said: \u201cThe sale of illegal tobacco and vapes is of great concern. It impacts the health of residents in Cardiff and damages the wider economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegitimate businesses are affected as customers buy illegal products instead, and the availability of these products removes incentives for people to quit smoking.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobust action will be taken by Trading Standards against businesses that continually flout the law, and it is encouraging to see that the court\u2019s sentencing reflects the seriousness of this illegal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The store was selling vapes with tank sizes above legal limits in addition to counterfeit and incorrectly labelled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,2188,3786,924,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-council","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681816","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=681816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}