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Illicit tobacco crops worth more than $84m seized in raids near Murray River
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MarMarch 2021 at 3:06am
A tobacco crop found in a raid on a south-west New South Wales property being destroyed.
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Authorities say illicit tobacco crops seized and destroyed in raids on properties near the Murray River this month are among the biggest busts of their kind in Australia.
Key points:
Authorities estimate the tobacco seized was worth $84.3 million
Each year, illicit tobacco takes $822 million out of Australia s tax coffers
Officers from the multi-agency Illicit Tobacco Taskforce uncovered more than 40 hectares of the plant growing on properties either side of the Victoria-New South Wales border, near the regional centre of Swan Hill.
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