Jail for sofa cigarette smuggler A 55-year-old Perth man has been jailed for sm…

Jail for sofa cigarette smuggler
A 55-year-old Perth man has been jailed for smuggling almost 100,000 cigarettes concealed inside a shipment of sofas.
ABF officers intercepted the consignment in a shipping container from China on 3 January 2018. Inside were 149 cardboard boxes that contained modular sofas, with our officers identifying ten of the boxes marked slightly differently. One of those boxes was unpacked and an x-ray revealed dozens of cartons of cigarettes concealed within the sofa base. In total 449 cigarette cartons, or 99,800 sticks, were located.
Illicit tobacco smuggling is a serious crime – last financial year the ABF seized more than 177 tonnes of loose leaf tobacco and 422 million cigarettes, with the amount of duty…