✓ The Canberra TimesPower & Policy

Police dismantle cigarette crime ring, seize more than $5 million in assets

Officers seized more than 3.4 million illicit cigarettes and a Bentley Continental luxury car valued at $550,000. They also froze two Canberra homes and eight bank accounts worth more than $5 million in total. These come from an alleged Chinese transnational syndicate.

Why it mattersOrganised crime groups behind illicit tobacco often also traffic drugs and use violence. Stopping their supply chains is a major law enforcement priority.

AustraliaA significant smuggling operation targeting the ACT and supplying illicit tobacco across Australia has been dismantled, disrupting a national distribution network.

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