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A Scottish 'Del Boy' fraudster who swindled luxury hotels into buying £500,000 of fake tea is facing fresh legal action to pay back his ill-gotten gains. ‌

Thomas Robinson, 55, was jailed for more than three years in June for his plot in duping businesses across the UK into buying his Scottish-grown tea. He claimed to grow the leaves at a plantation, named The Wee Tea Plantation , on farmland in Perthshire. ‌

But the crook, from Dunkeld, planted tea plants for show, then imported more than a ton of tea from overseas and repacked it. In reality, Robinson bought the tea from wholesalers in Italy for €3 before reselling them to retailers for five times the original cost. ‌

The reality was not unlike Del Boy Trotter’s Peckham Spring scam in the TV come

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