He said 50 illegally imported electric off-road motorcycles were destined for sale in his county.
Claire Davies, from Suffolk Trading Standards, advised people to only buy electric vehicles from "reputable dealers" and if prices "look too good to be true, they probably are".
Slapping "off-road" or "for use on private properties" is a well-know way of legally importing and reselling vehicles that the seller knows perfectly well will be used illegally on the road. And it's not new either: it's been a known trick for decades.
As for the buyers of those vehicles, they know perfectly well what they're buying. Nobody who buys an electric scooter that goes at 50 mph is surprised to find out it's not road-legal...