A Liberal candidate who ran a halal shop in a Muslim-majority Sydney suburb was fined $880 for repeatedly breaching the food standards code.
The Bangladesh Palace store in Lakemba was slapped with an $880 fine by Canterbury-Bankstown Council in July 2018.
At the time local councillor Mohammad Zaman was also the secretary of Sydney Food Pty Ltd, the company which owns the store.
A Liberal candidate who ran a halal shop in a Muslim-majority Sydney suburb was fined $880 for repeatedly breaching food standard laws (pictured is Mohammad Zaman, right, with state Labor frontbenchers Tania Mihailuk, left, and Jihad Dib, centre, the first Muslim lower house MP in the New South Wales Parliament)
He is now the Liberal Party's candidate for Watson, and is campaigning on his small business credentials.
Mr Zaman's grocery business was penalised for selling packaged and labelled food in breach of the food standards code.
The breach, issued by the council, was made despite 'previous warnings', the New South Wales Food Authority said.
Mr Zaman said he took steps 'to resolve the complicated issue of imported labels'.
'I was a director of the parent company that owns a multicultural produce store in Lakemba,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I understand at the time there were some labelling issues related to some of the thousand imported products stocked in the store.'
In 2017, Mr Zaman (left) was one of three Muslim councillors elected to the Roselands ward, along with Labor's Nadia Saleh (second right) and her running mate Mohammad Huda
In 2017, Mr Zaman was one of three Muslim councillors elected to the Roselands ward, along with Labor's Nadia Saleh and her running
