A shopkeeper avoided jail after he admitted having a massive cannabis factory valued by police at £100,000 in his convenience store at a shopping centre.
Police found more than 100 cannabis plants at Muhamed Arif’s Costcutters store and units attached to it in the Glenwood Centre, Glenrothes.
Arif, who was previously handed a massive fine for selling counterfeit wine from the shop, was caught in a raid on the premises in February last year.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard police found 2.53 kilograms of cannabis as well as 108 plants being grown at the shop.
The value of the haul was not given in court but when it was discovered last year police valued it at around £100,000.
Arif, a father of four, told police he had leased the areas of the building where the cannabis was being grown to another, unnamed, man.
He said he knew there was cannabis being grown there but claimed he thought it was only a small cultivation.
Arif, 47, Loyne Court, Glenrothes, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of being concerned in the production of cannabis between November 1 2013 and February 27 2014.
Arif was sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work on a community payback order.
He was placed on an electronic tag restricting him to his home address from 7pm until 7am for the next four months.