Wakey Wines owner who was banned by TikTok after selling Prime at £100 is convicted drug dealer who spent years in jail
A CORNER shop boss who was banned from TikTok for selling energy drink Prime at £100 is a convicted drug dealer, it has emerged.
Wakey Wines owner Mohammad Azar Nazir, 42, sold heroin and crack cocaine before becoming an online sensation.
He admitted selling the class A drugs and spent four years behind bars after being jailed for eight in 2015.
He since turned his life around and set up shop in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
And it was nicknamed Britain's most expensive newsagent when he went viral for flogging the £1.99 energy drink Prime for more than £100 per bottle.
Last January he told his followers: "In 2015, I was selling drugs, I was doing wrong... I made the biggest mistake of my life.
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"I came out of prison in 2019, I have changed my life around. I don't have [sic] nothing to do with Class A drugs, I work hard for my money now.
"I was that [a drug dealer] in the past. I was the biggest numpty you could ever meet... I made the biggest mistake selling drugs and I regret that to this day."
Nazir's shop went viral for selling Prime at highly-inflated prices. One customer boasted in a clip that she paid more than £1,200 for the cans.
In his viral videos, Nazir gets his customers to pose with the drink and describe his firm as the best in Wakefield.
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But Prime co-founder and YouTuber KSI warned his followers not to buy the drink at such high prices.
The drink, also founded by YouTuber Logan Paul, is sold for just £2 and major retailers.
Wakey Wines had its account suspended when it reached around 500,00 followers. Nazir blamed it on "jealous horrible" people.
He added: “All of my videos are for fun. I saw a business idea with sweets just like any other businessman and I took the opportunity."
TikTok confirmed the ban was a mistake and his account had been reinstated tonight.
Prime has become the first "viral drink" and is in in UK shops.
The canned version of the drink has only launched in the US, with UK retailers usually only stocking the bottled version.
Customers have travelled more than 100 miles to get their hands on the drink at the popular newsagents in Wakefield.
Another TikTok video even shows a woman pay a whopping £145 for six bottles of Prime.
Other videos showed a group of girls who had travelled 133 miles from Carlisle, Cumbria, to Wakefield.
Prime has seen shoppers queuing for hours to nab the drinks containing mostly water added with vitamins and minerals, with few calories and no added sugar.
Advertised as a "hydration drink" it is also made up of coconut water but does not have any caffeine in it.
The drink is so hot among youngsters that desperate parents have travelled more than 500 miles just to get their hands on a bottle.
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Supermarkets have even seen stampedes of customers and parents wrestling kids out of the way to get their hands on a bottle.
And on Facebook Marketplace, bottles are being offered for 10 times the original price tag.