Conman Sold Fake Luxury Tea From Sussex to High End Clients, Causing £600k Losses

Conman sold fake luxury tea from Sussex to high end clients, causing £600k losses

A conman duped luxury hotels and retailers out of £550,000 by selling fake Scottish tea from Sussex.

Del Boy's tea scam conned rich clients out of half a million

A fraudster was jailed for peddling over half a million quid's worth of bogus "Scottish-grown" tea to upmarket hotels - that he'd bought from overseas.

Fraud conviction in Scottish tea scam

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has welcomed the conviction of a man who made fraudulent claims about tea. Thomas Robinson, 52, was found guilty on two counts of fraud amounting to nearly £600,000 ($808,300). He will be sentenced at a later date. Robinson defrauded luxury hotels and retailers by claiming to supply premium tea grown in Scotland. He also misled a small group of genuine Scottish tea growers by selling them plants under the false pret…