Illegal cigarettes: $2.7 million worth seized from Melbourne storage unit [Australia]

From: Herald Sun

A HAUL of $2.7 million worth of illegal cigarettes has been uncovered in Melbourne’s west.

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An organised crime gang with links to the Middle East is believed to be behind the importation of the tobacco.

ABF officers uncovered almost six million illegal cigarette sticks which had been flown in from the United Arab Emirates after executing search warrants at three storage units and a number of residential addresses in the western suburbs in recent weeks.

 

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