A SHOP owner who was banned from selling alcohol from one of his stores has been caught with illicit goods.. again.

Ismail Sari, owner of Palmerston Food Centre in Walthamstow was found to be selling counterfeit alcohol and tobacco in November 2014.

Items in the shop were found, including 92 bottles of counterfeit Italian wine, eight more bottles of whisky and 4470 illicit cigarettes.

Now, Sari has been accused of doing the same thing in Leyton shop, Classic Fruit and Veg.

Trading Standards has called for a review of the Lea Bridge Road premises licence after a visit to the shop on June 11.

While on site, along with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers, trading standards representatives found illicit alcohol and cigarettes.

The excise duty evaded for 21 bottles of booze and hundreds of cigarettes seized by HMRC equated to over £2,500.

Mr Sari of Boundary Road in Walthamstow previously said he had purchased some items from a Ukrainian man in a bid to boost his sales at his Walthamstow shop.

He was made to pay a total of £378 in fines and court costs. The company was made to pay £879.

Now, Mr Sari will face the licensing committee for a second time, next week.

In a statement Trading Standards enforcement officer Cordelia Cornelius said: “Mr Ismail Sari, the owner and company director of the business, advised Trading Standards Officers that he purchased the non-duty paid cigarettes in June 2015 from a man at an unspecified Turkish Social Club.

“It is clear that the recent conviction, did not act as a deterrent to Mr Sari’s dishonest business practice.”

Mr Sari will face the council’s licensing committee at the town hall in Walthamstow on October 20.