A SCOTTISH businessman has been banned from directing companies after attempting to smuggle tobacco hidden in furniture into the UK.
Fazle Masum, who is based in Glasgow, was fined £153,000 for the attempted crimes, forcing his company Unique Enterprise Ltd into liquidation owing almost £175,000.
Border Force officers intercepted a shipment addressed to Masum’s company – which was registered in Dunfermline – at Grangemouth in January 2022 and found raw tobacco hidden inside vacuum-sealed tins disguised as furniture.
Masum then applied to Border Force to have the seized tobacco returned to him.
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However, Unique Enterprise Ltd did not hold the…