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The Glasgow fire that devastated a historic building next to Central Station started in a ground-floor vape shop on Union Street. Since then a strange ownership story has emerged. I spent some time digging through public records and reporting to see what actually shows up. Here’s what the available information suggests. The fire began on 8 March in a vape shop at 105 Union Street. Shortly afterwards, media reports claimed the shop had been sold about two weeks earlier to a man identified only as “Arslan.” No surname, no company name — just a first name. (Source: reporting in The Scottish Sun) That immediately raises a question. When a business genuinely changes hands there are normally records somewhere: Companies House filings, lease transfers, council business-rates updates, licensing records. So far, none of the obvious public registers clearly show a new owner called Arslan. The only confirmed tenant linked to the premises appears to be Junaid Retail Ltd. According to reporting from The Ferret, Glasgow City Council records show that company occupied the shop unit from 1 August 2024 and was still listed as the occupier when the fire happened. Looking at Junaid Retail Ltd itself, it’s a very small company. It was incorporated in September 2023, has £1 share capital, files micro-entity accounts, and its registered office is in Regent Shopping Centre in Hamilton. (Companies House) So naturally the next question becomes: what’s at that Hamilton address? Companies House filings show several small retail companies registered from units in that same shopping centre over the years. Examples include AAA Traders Hamilton Ltd, UK Little Angels Ltd, and M Sarwar & Sons Ltd. Many of those companies are linked to Mirza Muhammed Ijaz Sarwar. The pattern across the filings is lots of small retail companies, repeated use of the same shopping-centre addresses, and several companies later dissolved. None of that is illegal. Small independent retail businesses come and go all the time. But it does create a fairly messy ownership trail. The Hamilton connection becomes more interesting when you look at the reporting. According to The Ferret, when journalists visited the Hamilton shop linked to Junaid Retail they were directed to Ajaz Sarwar, who said he had previously owned the Glasgow vape shop. Another detail uncovered by The Ferret is that the Union Street vape shop reportedly did not appear on the Scottish nicotine vapour retailer register, which shops selling vapes are supposed to join. The building itself is owned by Afton Estates Ltd, which bought it in 2008, and the retail units are leased to tenants. Which brings things back to the mysterious “Arslan”. Right now that name appears only in press interviews. There’s no obvious Companies House record, tenancy change, or licensing entry linking someone by that name to the shop. That doesn’t necessarily mean the sale story is wrong. Small shops are often sold informally, where stock and goodwill change hands while the lease and company stay the same. But until official records appear, the only documented tenant linked to the premises remains Junaid Retail Ltd. None of this proves wrongdoing. Fires happen and the investigation is ongoing. What it does show is how opaque small high-street retail ownership structures can be when the company owner, leaseholder, shop operator and person speaking to journalists may all be different people. For now the publicly visible picture is simple: a historic Glasgow building destroyed by fire, a vape shop with almost no digital footprint, a reported new owner identified only as “Arslan”, and a tenant company linked to a small retail cluster in Hamilton. Maybe it’s all coincidence. Maybe the sale story will eventually check out perfectly. But when you follow the available records, the ownership trail around that shop is undeniably murky.

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