Watch: Trading standards find hydraulic cupboard hiding illicit tobacco
More than £10,000 worth of illicit tobacco, cigarettes and vapes have been found in an "elaborate" hydraulic cupboard.
Police and a trading standards team made the discovery at a shop in Derby with the help of a sniffer dog.
The items were concealed inside a kitchen counter on hydraulic legs, which could raise and lower at the push of a button, Derby City Council said.
No arrests have been made so far, a spokeswoman at the council added.
Over the past year, the council's trading standards team have seized 791,000 cigarettes and almost 140kg of hand rolling tobacco.
An additional 5,082 illegal vapes have also been taken off the shelves, the council said.
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