A major bust of illegal cigarettes has been uncovered by Queensland Police, the Australian Border Force, the Department of Home Affairs, ACIC and NSW Police; seizing 57 million cigarettes at the border.
The cigarettes are worth more than forty million dollars in tobacco excise, and are being imported by a south-east Asia syndicate.
A further ten shipments of illicit tobacco have intercepted since the formation of a specialist task force to deal with increasing amounts of illicit cigarettes after six years of tobacco excise increases.