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8 September 2026

Border Force seizes 1.7m cigarettes, thousands of vapes in WA, NT raids

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Border Force seizes 1.7m cigarettes, thousands of vapes in WA, NT raids

The Australian Border Force has seized more than 1. 7 million illegal cigarettes and thousands of vapes with a street value of more than $800,000 in a joint operation across Western Australian and the Northern Territory.

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