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25th July 2025
Man jailed for selling fake halal meat to restaurants
Hamil Miah, 46, of Kilcredaun House, Cardiff, who owned Universal Food Wholesale Limited, was found guilty after a trial earlier this year and sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for fraudulent trading and trading whilst bankrupt.
Noaf Rahman, also 46 and from Cardiff, admitted the fraudulent trading offences before the trial started and was given a 24-month suspended sentence.
The offences came to light following an investigation which led to 2,840kg of frozen meat being seized from the pair's warehouse in Cardiff.
Prosecutor Alex Greenwood told Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court that over a five-year period, consumers of restaurants and takeaways "were in fact consuming non-halal products as a result of the criminality of these two defendants".
An investigation was conducted by Cardiff and the Vale Shared Regulatory Services in January 2019.
It found meat was not properly traceable, best before dates were altered and the chicken was not properly chilled when it was transported in dirty vans across south and west Wales.
The court heard that the takeaways and restaurants believed they were dealing with a number of different companies and all believed they were buying Halal chicken.
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