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Ciggie smugglers making a killing

The insane taxes on tobacco products are counter-productive

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

A Malaysian woman was recently sentenced to two years in an Australian jail for orchestrating a sophisticated money laundering and tobacco smuggling operation on behalf of a large-scale global criminal syndicate.

AFP telephone intercepts overheard her telling one of her underlings that the cigarette imports were ‘only about the dodging of tax, so Customs should not be interested’.

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