{"id":2232,"date":"2019-01-13T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2019-01-13T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T05:55:59","slug":"more-than-a-million-illicit-cigarettes-found-hidden-under-tea-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=2232","title":{"rendered":"More than a million illicit cigarettes found hidden under tea in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million cigarettes illegally imported into Australia under a layer of loose tea have been seized by border officials in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Two men have been arrested after Australian Border Force officers stopped a rental truck in Tullamarine containing $10 million worth of illegal tobacco on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged as well as the latest 1.1 million cigarette consignment the pair were involved in importing multiple air cargo consignments, declared as black tea from the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>ABF acting commander Colin Drysdale says the seizure will have a &#8220;significant impact&#8221; on illicit tobacco supplies in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Joint police and border authority operations like this are stopping the $600 million a year illegal tobacco market lining the pockets of organised crime syndicates, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million cigarettes illegally imported into Australia under a layer of loose tea have been seized by border officials in Melbourne. Two men have been arrested after Australian Border Force officers stopped a rental truck in Tullamarine containing $10 million worth of illegal tobacco on Thursday. It&#8217;s alleged as well as the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-incident"],"views":45,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}