Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea'

Fraudster convicted in £550,000 scam selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea' to luxury hotels like Balmoral and Dorchester. Thomas Robinson tricked buyers by falsely claiming imported tea was grown in Scotland, even defrauding aspiring Scottish tea growers. Robinson, operating as The Wee Tea Plantation, misled customers with elaborate lies about the tea's origin, using different company names to cover his tracks. This resulted in significant financial losses and misled major establishments like the Balmoral Hotel and Fortnum and Mason.